Word: fends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fend off a similar fate, many magazine publishers now face a bleak future of radical cost cutting...
...feel that I can drive, float, and change direction easily in the air better than most of the other players. It's that freedom of motion that separates me." Another Erving trick: in mid-dribble he palms the ball with his right hand, leaving his left free to fend off opponents, and soars into shooting or passing position without losing a step. The ploy, Erving says, "is quicker and more deceptive. You eliminate one move...
Woodside explained that much of Cambodian history has been a continual effort to fend off Thai encroachments from the west and Vietnamese advances from the east. "Historically, any Cambodian politician who received Vietnamese aid would eventually be a dead duck in Cambodian politics," he said...
...Radcliffe, having maintained a narrow advantage since its fast start, responded to the challenge in championship form. Stroke and captain Charlotte Crane immediately took the cadence up to fend off the Vesper challenge, and from that point, the 'Cliffe was never in danger again...
...haven't seen the movie," muttered Brando) and The Godfather ("I don't want to talk about movies"). So the evening went. Later, on his way to dinner with Cavett, Brando got into a row with Ron Galella, the peskily persistent photographer whom Jacqueline Onassis had to fend off with a court order. Galella asked the actor to take off his dark glasses for another photograph. "No," said Brando bluntly, then swung with a right to the jaw. Galella fled to a hospital for nine stitches and a brace. The next day Brando was also admitted...