Word: fending
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Seven-foot rookie center Brian Cusworth continued his fast-track development on Saturday, scoring eight of Harvard’s final 13 points off the bench to help the Harvard men’s basketball team fend off host Stony Brook...
...Strings of the haughty beasts speeded up European exploration of the continent's interior, and helped open it up for ranchers. Shipped over en masse from what is now Pakistan, these dromedaries delivered freight and carried mail, and when superseded by motor vehicles, were turned loose and left to fend for themselves. Ideally suited to the rough desert conditions of Australia's interior, the hardy beasts soon bred themselves into a vast, wild population of at least 200,000?the world's largest...
...such as brentandbeckysbulbs.com or johnscheepers.com For best results, plant tulips as soon as night temperatures drop to about 40, before the ground freezes. Choose bulbs that feel hard all around, and plant them in direct sun, 4 in. to 6 in. apart in well-drained soil. Bonus tip: to fend off hungry squirrels, rub the bulbs in hot sauce...
...after a French doctor introduced it in the 1950s to prevent the animals from eating his crops; and viral hemorrhagic pneumonia did the same in the early 1980s when it arrived from Asia, probably via shipments of contaminated meat and infected live rabbits. Not much can be done to fend off such viruses; conservationists just have to wait until the rabbits develop immunity, as they did against myxomatosis. Now the lynx's habitat is becoming almost as scarce as its food supply. Over the past 50 years, Spain's areas of wood and scrubland have shrunk dramatically as a result...
...leap of faith found that [Sinn Fein leader] Gerry Adams had packed the parachute badly," said Peter Brown, a 28-year-old unionist lawyer. As unionists watch the Catholic population grow - threatening to erase their majority - it's dawned on some of them that the best way to fend off a united Ireland is to convince Catholics they are better off being governed in Belfast. The problem is, those efforts are often ham-fisted. "I think unionism hasn't adapted because it knows what it's against better than what it's for," said Susan McKay, author of Northern Protestants...