Word: fend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begun to shed its politically uncool image (the American fur industry does not use pelts from endangered species such as leopard and baby seal), because "it's an organic, renewable, nonpolluting resource," as Ernest Graf, president of Ben Kahn Furs, explains. In Alaska's subzero temperatures, residents fend off the cold with Eskimo mukluks, boots made from sealskin and caribou, and fur parkas. And down is up everywhere. At many a party, discussing the virtues of feather-stuffed outerwear has replaced talk about the right running gear...
...game at 2-4-1 and had lost to U.Conn. 4-1, a club that only edged the Crimson, 2-1. And from the beginning Harvard always looked more lickly to score, pepering Darmouth's Andy Frehling with 26 shots while the Crimson's Billy Blood had to fend off only...
...President Carter thinks the banzai bunny that he had to fend off with a paddle [Sept. 10] was "just a nice, typical Georgia rabbit," wait until he sees the nice banzai American public when the presidential election comes...
...promised" Bo and Peep not to reveal the location. He says only that there are about four dozen people, and that they are normally encamped in the Wyoming Rockies, moving to a ranch in northern Texas when the snows come. Unarmed sentries guard the perimeter of the compound to fend off outsiders. As Groll tells it, the relaxed life-style that the sociologists found seems to have changed drastically. Even with today's can-you-top-this cult scene, his account of training for life in outer space is remarkable. Each minute, 24 hours a day, a musical beep...
...carries a motorcycle helmet to fend off the huge hailstones that often accompany a tornado, but the only thing he admits fearing is lightning: "There's no rhyme or reason to it." Now he turns up the AM radio and rotates the tuner, listening for the pop of static that reveals the presence of lightning in the billowing clouds overhead. There is none...