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...This is what I've been hoping for." As it turned out, members of the Administration were not the only ones on trial. Sirica's unbridled temper and his less than brilliant reputation were large targets for the defense attorneys. But the old pugilist had not forgotten how to feint and duck. He remained imperturbable, retired to a neutral corner, and saw every major decision upheld by the appeals courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Maximum John | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

With the score 13-8, epee fencer Steve Biddle had the honor of finishing the Elis off. He edged John Greenfield, 5-3, ending the bout by refusing to be duked by a Greenfield feint, parrying the Eli's blade to the right, then driving forward for a touch to the chest...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Fencers Slash Bulldogs, 17-10 Amid Controversy Concerning Touches | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...Game. In this first work by Playwright D.L. Coburn, Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn feint and parry with a sparkling professional finesse polished through decade after decade after decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Year's Best | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...point is "to use simple one feint or similar attacks," she said. Learning quickly after a first bout that she won by one point, Cooper swashbuckled her way to a 4-0 record with 5-0, 5-2 and 5-1 victories in her last three duels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Fencing Squads Slice SMU | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...nation's top general and its top civilian almost fell to blows last weekend--in a dispute over which of them should have given the order for a Navy carrier task force sailing toward the Indian Ocean to feint toward Vietnam, as a "warning to Hanoi." Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Henry A. Kissinger '50, secretary of state, evidently had no disagreement on the desirability of such a "signal of American determination"--though Brown, who after all lacks Kissinger's training as a historian, did not specifically suggest that the Gulf of Tonkin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vietnam: Good and Bad News | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

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