Word: foe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Waterville, Colby unsheathed its stinger during the second period, in an exchange which started 0-0 and ended up 4-3. Colby struck back in the third period, getting past stalwart Bill Fitzsimmons twice in nine essays. Harvard bombarded its foe with 17 futile shots. The ten-minute overtime locked up the deadlock, although Harvard again got off more goalward pucks, five shots to the Snowmen's three...
...terms. For a fortnight, the troopers of the 1st Air Cavalry got lots of blistered feet, fought some brief skirmishes and took some prisoners, but made no real contact with the enemy. The chance of real battle seemed lost until last week, when the U.S. abruptly found its foe in the shadow of Chu Pong Mountain (see map). The result was the first major encounter between U.S. and North Vietnamese regular troops-and the biggest, bloodiest and most brutal losses for both sides...
Yale has a 3-5 record overall, 3-3 in the Ivy League. The Elis lost their season opener to Connecticut, 13 to 6--the first time in history Yale had lost to an home-state foe. Football fans in New Haven were prepared for a bleak, bleak season. But since then the Bulldogs have defeated Brown, Cornell, and Penn. On October 30 they nearly pulled off the upset of the year, losing to Dartmouth 21-17 after outplaying the Inlians for most of the game. Last Saturday, however, Yale was clobbered by Princeton...
...action to a speech defending the Administration after the price hike had been rescinded). McNamara used roughly the same technique that the U.S. had used on the Russians during the Cuban missile crisis: turn the screw only half a notch at a time, then release it to enable the foe to back off. Turning the screw again, McNamara let word be issued that the Government would now dump 300,000 tons of aluminum, an amount that the industry feared would rock the aluminum market...
...corpse count of London's foggy Limehouse district shows an alarming upswing. The victims are strangled with crimson Tibetan prayer scarves, the weapons favored by "a gang of Burmese dacoits." Scotland Yard Man Nayland Smith (Nigel Green) thoughtfully eyes the wall where a death mask of his sworn foe hangs as a trophy. "I dreamt that Fu Manchu was still alive," he muses. "I've been uneasy...