Word: countering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crimson fencer Bernadette Drankowski lunged forward but the point of her foil blade came up short of her opponent's neck. Rather than clearing Drankowski's blade to the side and responding with a counter-attack, Rhode Island College fencer Joleen Morinho obligingly left the point inches from her vest so that Drankowski, after a momentary pause, could push the foil forward for the touch...
Drankowski fenced hesitantly against Trier, losing most of her touches on Trier counter-attacks after parries of tentative straight lunges or beat attacks...
...settlement. Sadat has been disappointed that the Saudis, whose economic support is crucial to Egypt, have not publicly endorsed the Camp David accords. In truth they have been giving him some behind-the-scenes help. At a pan-Arab summit conference in Baghdad, which was convened by Iraq to counter the peace initiative, Saudi Crown Prince Fahd told the other delegates: "An attack on Sadat or Egypt will be considered an attack on Saudi Arabia." He went along with a pro forma condemnation of Camp David, but fought off efforts to impose economic sanctions against Egypt...
...dispute with her mother about her schooling. Christina said something that "struck at some volcanic trauma in the center of her being that erupted with a violence, a hatred and a suddenness that plunged both of us into an instantaneous struggle for survival. She leaped off the counter and grabbed for my throat like a mad dog. I lost my footing and fell to the floor, hitting my head on the ice chest as I went down. The choking pain of her fingers around my throat met the thudding ache of the blow to the back of my head...
Farmers are certainly not the ones making a killing at the check-out counter. Time notes that 87 per cent of food price increases take place after the farmer has received his share. Time laid the blame for these price increases on the consumers, with their "insatiable desire for even fancier processing and packaging" and American labor with their ever increasing wages...