Word: fends
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...however, the city is being knocked off its bearings, forcing citizens to fend for themselves. "One of the most frightening things about life in Moscow," says Galina Volchek, director of the Sovremennik Theater, "is this sense of inner, psychological defenselessness; the feeling that you are totally alone in facing whatever may happen." Russians have a word for this feeling of vulnerability in the midst of wrenching change: bespredel. Its literal meaning perhaps best sums up the new Moscow: no limits...
...high school to go out to the lake with a picnic basket and lots of Avon's Skin So Soft. (The mosquitos in Dallas are larger than most birds in Massachusetts). The fireworks lit up the modern skyline of downtown and reflected onto the lake. If we could successfully fend off the mosquitos and avoid the ants, we usually had a good time...
...room to spare, when the Senate voted 50-50 not to lift the White House -- supported arms embargo against Bosnia. Senate minority leader Bob Dole, backed by most Republicans and some Democrats, went after the Clinton policy in an effort to give the besieged Bosnians more firepower to fend off the better armed Serbs. White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers welcomed the vote as a confirmation of the President's Bosnia stance -- a policy, BTW, that candidate Clinton had railed against. Dole said he'd try it again.parpar
Shotgun-toting attaches, the irregular ruffians who back up the military, boasted that they would fend off any foreign invasion. "We turned their boat back once, and we will turn them back again," claimed a gunman. "When the Americans land, we will be issued grenades and M1s. We are supposed to start firing right away to keep control of the population." He said his superiors had warned that if a U.S. invasion succeeds, "they will make certain the attaches get no jobs and don't eat" -- an effective threat in a country where only the luckiest have work or regular...
House Democrats united to fend off what they claimed (and some Republicans virtually conceded) to be Republican obstructionism on health care. The House Ways and Means Committee sided with other congressional committees and voted in favor of mandating employers to finance health insurance, with breaks for small businesses. But leaders of the Senate Finance Committee told President Clinton they did not have the votes on their panel for such a provision, which the President favors. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton raised the possibility of negotiating away abortion coverage, if necessary, to pass a compromise bill...