Word: fends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...treated to a shower of ice water from Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, who set the meeting back on its heels by suddenly refusing a long-prepared deal offering Moscow a special relationship with NATO in coordinating European security. Kozyrev's rebuff might have been meant to fend off nationalists at home, but its timing suggested that lessons from the Bosnia debacle were taken into account...
...flier, which was produced by a West Virginia-based group calling itself the National Alliance, asks Americans to "send minority parasites packing to fend for themselves...
Campbell said the election reforms were intended to fend off members who would stack the election or liberal students who "might get the idea to take over the club or something...
...part-timers usually don't.) Last week Kennedy even introduced religion into the race, demanding to know if Romney, a member of the Mormon Church, supported church policies that until 1978 excluded black men from serving as priests. Romney quickly reminded voters how the Democrat's brother had to fend off questions about his Catholicism during his run for the presidency...
...elected, will you defend Hurlbut " I asked Kris N. Thiessen '96. "DEE-fend," boomed, affecting a political in a southern twang. "Of course. But, let me add a clause to that: I will defend all of Harvard University--especially the dorms which I represent...