Word: fends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman or cat man. On the streets of San Francisco or Chicago or New Orleans or Podunk, loners in torn raincoats carry shopping bags full of cat food to provide for an estimated 15 million "public" cats, on the possibly erroneous assumption that these adaptive animals cannot fend for themselves. Occasionally, however, some bummed-out cats find safe havens...
...increase the punch of 60 F-15s already ordered. On merit, the Administration's case for approving the sale was defensible, if not entirely convincing. The West has a vital stake in Saudi Arabia's oil and the stability of the Saudi regime in its turbulent region. To fend off Soviet encroachment and the threats of neighbors serving as Moscow's proxies, the U.S. must provide the Saudis with adequate defenses. The sale would not shift the balance of military strength in the Middle East away from Israel, and it would provide the Saudis with a token of American reliability...
...rushers don't get back in time, the deep men are left to fend for themselves. "There are two people back there by design," McCabe says, "so whoever catches the ball has a blocker right in front of him. But when there are four tacklers right there, which one do you pick to block...
...house of gross dreams and irreconcilable conflicts: no satisfaction anywhere, except in the creamy, impasted paint, which remained as lavish as in his abstract paintings. The essential Guston is all there in a work like Entrance, 1979. It is about intrusion and helplessness, the mind's impotence to fend off its demons. A door opens, and in rolls a mass of Guston's standard images-the trampling, dismembered limbs, nasty enough even without the bugs that advance with them across the floor. Then one realizes that the thing is a sly parody of a triumphal procession; its remote...
...fend off any further takeover efforts, Conoco searched frantically for a merger partner. On rumor alone, the stock prices of Diamond Shamrock, Newmont Mining and Cities Service all leaped as investors speculated that Conoco was preparing to institute merger proceedings with them...