Word: fend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made piece of machinery is nearly so complex. Capable of countless chemical reactions, it can fend off attackers, reproduce itself and perform all the other activities that characterize life. In laboratories around the world, thousands of researchers are busily trying to understand-and in some cases, duplicate-the cell's vital chemistry. Last week two teams of scientists made significant advances toward those goals...
...some ways, Kissinger has an easier relationship with Nixon than Haldeman or Ehrlichman; he does not have to fend off unhappy Congressmen, and his specialty is Nixon's pet preoccupation. "The old man," says a Nixon aide, "doesn't give a damn about parks and stuff, relatively speaking. He's not interested in mobile homes or farm problems. He wants to talk to Henry Kissinger about foreign policy, and he expects the Germans to keep people away from him so he can do it." Kissinger has more experience in Washington than his two colleagues, since he was a defense-policy...
...rest of the points should f(??)in Harvard's direction. Sheer depth in the distance events, and a clear edge the sprints, the hurdles, and the relays ?ould be sufficient to fend off any seri? Dartmouth challenge...
...carload of gun-toting police. The entrance to the U.S. embassy in Guatemala City has been outfitted with a peephole door and closed-circuit TV. Brazilian police guard the residence of every ambassador in Rio de Janeiro, but first secretaries, naval attachés and the like must fend for themselves. Rio's diplomatic community numbers 2,000-far too many to be safely protected at all times...
...into a situation for which he is culturally as well as academically ill prepared. As with white athletes, teachers will give him passing marks so that he can maintain his eligibility as a player. But once that eligibility is used up, black athletes charge that "it's strictly fend for yourself, black boy." As a result, about half of the black athletes fail to graduate...