Word: fend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know better than to anticipate that I'm taking a leisurely trip," said Reagan last week. At Versailles, where leaders of seven major industrialized nations will hold their annual economic summit, he will have to fend off criticism that high U.S. interest rates are largely responsible for the recession afflicting Western economies. The NATO meeting in Bonn will give the President, in company with other allied leaders, a chance to display the vitality of Western resolve in the face of a Soviet challenge and to celebrate Spain's accession to the organization...
...days, Topps printed very few cards of the biggest stars to induce kids to spend money all summer in search of a Tom Seaver. But with Topps having to fend off Fleer and Donruss in the card market, there are now two or three shots of Rich Gossage standing around looking cute, as well as the Rich Gossage in action pose and the Rich Gossage All-Star model...
Saturday Usher accused Yowell of using "gamesmanship and stalling" to fend off an upset bid by Harvard's Erika Schulman. Yowell denied Usher's charges...
Harvard Coach Don Usher field formal complaints charging that tournament top-seed Connie Yowell used "gamesmanship and stalling" to fend off an upset bid by Crimson second-seed Erika Schulman in the second round of the Ivy League women's tennis tourney yesterday at Yale...
...been gaining momentum. A victory by a coalition of D'Aubuisson's National Republican Alliance with the conservative National Reconciliation Party, the traditional vehicle of the oligarchy, would be a disaster for Washington's policy, which is aimed at shoring up the moderate center while providing military aid to fend off a mounting challenge from the country's five main guerrilla groups...