Word: fending
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Liza, stop it, stop it!'" David Gest, husband of actress Liza Minelli, recounting how he tried to fend off allegedly drunken beatings by his wife, according to his $10 million civil suit. Minelli, who denies the allegations, has filed for divorce...
...though regular bar patrons have long gotten used to the idea of St. Pauli Girl in Los Angeles and Foster’s in Minneapolis, there is a part of me that would rather fend off flat tires on West Fourth from broken pieces of Boston’s own Sam Adams, not Corona. There is a part of me that still wants to feel something distinctive about the town that I’m walking through. I want to know that it is unique, it is different, and it is not Anytown...
...Okrent, a former editor of LIFE magazine, is how a group of mismatched and combustible characters could make the thing happen. It didn't require much. All they had to do was undertake a project that would have stumped the pharaohs, fight like pit vipers, face down the Depression, fend off naysayers on all sides and still produce what Okrent calls an "aesthetic, commercial, and--there's no other word for it--emotional success...
...It’s about how to use personal weapons to fend off attacks,” Cooper says. “We know we can’t create the fear of a real life situation. We suggest they try to imagine this is real. It’s nowhere near the tension if you’re fighting for your life. You fight differently under fear...
...course, participants find themselves fighting from start to finish. In a final scenario, students fend off a surprise attack from one of the instructors—from behind, thrown to the ground or otherwise...