Word: fending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bowdoin was completely unable to fend off the varsity yesterday, as foilsmen Bill Raney and Joe Vera speared three matches apiece, Chip Arp took two, and Frankman one, for a clean sweep in the division...
Small, twinkle-eyed George Antonio Laberge of Rhode Island is the only American Roman Catholic priest in Moscow.* In a country where the ruling party requires its members to be militantly atheistic, any man who wears a Roman collar sometimes has to fend attacks on his clerical dignity...
...automatic-washer field. Then it announced that it had bought Cleveland's H. J. Rand Washing Machine Corp., along with the rights to a "radically different" machine, which it hopes to put on the market next fall. With price cuts and new machine, Bendix hopes to fend off the score of new washers which have tried to break Bendix' tight grip on the market...
...know which' are theirs), but mother rats make cozy nests for their six litters a year. They always abandon their young when threatened, but when unmolested show tender regard for their infants' education. No adolescent rat is allowed to leave the nest until old enough to fend for itself. Its mother guides it out, trains it to keep close to walls, teaches it caution by testing all food for poison. -She warns against dogs, cats and traps. Specialist Nicholes believes that rats have some sort of mental telepathy which enables them to communicate knowledge and to broadcast alarms...
...fend was at an end. The CRIMSON ceased treating Radcliffe girls as Hatfields and recognized them as the real McCoys...