Word: fending
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Association meetings. After cleaning, sweeping, mopping and incinerating, Antonio finishes shoveling the courtyard as a light snow begins to fall. The returning "children" remind Antonio of his own brood. His daughter (age 13) and two sons (ages 8 and 6) will imminently arrive home from Dorchester public schools and fend for themselves until Antonio returns...
...though not proving) that early men and women sometimes had overlapping job descriptions, like having to drive off the leopards. And speaking of Paleolithic predators, wouldn't it be at least unwise for the guys to go off hunting, leaving the supposedly weak and dependent women and children to fend for themselves at base camp? Odd too, that Paleolithic culture should look so much like the culture of Levittown circa 1955, with the gals waiting at home for the guys to come back with the bacon. In what other carnivorous species is only one sex an actual predator...
...world economy is so rickety that only a cell-phone tag team of financial sorcerers can fend off massive financial meltdown." CRAIG BESINQUE New Denver...
...Yale, however, will not try to fend off Harvard at home empty-handed...
Yale, however, will not try to fend off Harvard at home empty-handed...