Word: fended
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Contestants will have to fend with defending champions inmost of the ten weight classes--five for men and five for women-but no one has been training especially hard, so newcomers shouldn't be discouraged from entering...
Along the wall, agents, police officers and a union member leaped on Hinckley. He struggled furiously for at least 20 seconds before the gun was wrestled away from him. One agent brandished his Uzi submachine gun to emphasize orders to his colleagues as well as to fend off any threat from the aghast and screaming crowd; for all he knew, it might hold other assailants. Another agent, jammed against the wall in the melee, waved his pistol toward the menacing street. "Get a police car! Get a car!" cried the men holding Hinckley. Handcuffing Hinckley and throwing a jacket over...
...particularly not at a bacchanal funded (and photographed) by the Soviet secret police. But just hours after arriving in the small city of Rovno (pop. 167,000), sources say, Holbrook's traveling companion-a fellow U.S. Army attaché-was drugged, and Holbrook himself obliged to fend off an incipient blackmail scheme. The uncompromised pah- returned to Moscow immediately. In keeping with U.S. procedure in such matters, Holbrook was whisked back to the U.S., his 21-month-old assignment to the Soviet Union at an abrupt and curious...
Meanwhile, the White House is consulting leaders of special-interest groups, urging them to suspend judgment on the program until they see the full details, rather than mobilize now to fend off budget cuts that might hurt them. Reagan met separately last week in the Cabinet Room with a dozen big-city mayors, the 18 members of the Congressional Black Caucus and 30 leaders of farm organizations. He told them that the Administration intends to spread the pain of spending reductions equitably across U.S. society. Though all were apprehensive, most left taking the wait-and-see attitude that the President...
Penalties also hurt the Crimson. Three of the six Colby goals were scored in power-play situations. The Harvard penalty killers just weren't able to fend off the oncoming Colby tide. "They were just intimidated," Harder said...