Word: foe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nomination. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has indicated he would go along with Nixon's choice, but he adds a qualification: "Pending the hearings." At those hearings, opposition can be expected from liberal Democrats like Teddy Kennedy and Birch Bayh of Indiana But Gray may have a more dangerous foe in West Virginia Conservative Democrat Robert Byrd. "In the nine months that Mr. Gray has held the post of acting director, there has been increasing criticism of that bureau as becoming more and more a political arm of the Administration," Byrd told the Senate. "Under J. Edgar Hoover...
...interview with a woman who had promised to tell how she cheats on welfare, and ABC canceled talks with Black Panthers in their Oakland headquarters. The reason in both cases: executives felt they could not offer guarantees of anonymity to their subjects. Says California Representative Moss, an active foe of Government secrecy: "It's difficult to tell you I've seen it, but I just sense that there's some sharpness missing from my evening news and the stories I read in the papers. It's so subtle; the erosion can take place and you hardly...
...duel. "Talk about disappointments," Lee said. "Zweig is not a better wrestler and he knows it. That's why he wrestled for the tie." Zweig closed the 0-2 score by executing a reverse in the last round. Starr rebounded by pinning his F & M foe and upending Rutger's Bill Woodale...
...Crimson copped two other exciting wins when Carl Biello (134) decimated his Springfield foe, 10-2, and Jim Strathmeyer (177) pulled off a come-from-behind 6-3 victory...
...Juan also tells Castaneda that a warrior must have a worthy opponent, and that Castaneda's opponent is a sorceress named La Catalina. La Catalina appeared briefly in A Separate Reality as a trap (Don Juan later admits) to ensnare Castaneda's warrior spirit. She is a formidable foe, yet she inexplicably fails to kill Castaneda when he bungles an encounter with her. As suddenly as she is brought up, La Catalina is mysteriously dropped after one chapter. For his final showdown with her, Castaneda will need an "ally," a spirit he must conquer for his personal...