Word: foe
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Offensively sporadic for a half but defensively superb throughout its opening victory over MIT last week, Harvard's soccer team visits a large unfriendly crowd, a short field, and a mediocre soccer foe this afternoon at Amherst...
Lofton's tart tirades have made Monday lively reading in Washington for friend and foe alike. President Nixon is pleased and has told party officials, "I want that thing to hit hard." The Democratic National Committee's publications director, William Quinn, sneers that Lofton "drums up yellow journalism," but he admits that Monday "can generate a lot of attention. Lofton is kind of crafty. He knows what will catch the eye of newspapers." Indeed Monday is often quoted by one or another of the 8,000 newspapers, radio or TV stations to which it is sent. By contrast...
...however, can at least be called representative. The battle of Loos (September 1915) was typical of his style. He began the engagement with a gas attack that hurt the British more than the Germans. Next morning he mounted a massed assault by nearly 10,000 troops against the entrenched foe, not bothering to protect his men with a smoke cover or more than a desultory artillery barrage. The British lost 8,246 men; the Germans not a one. After a number of equally bloody encounters, Haig was promoted to head all British ground forces on the Western front...
...trade unionists, it is the biggest and most vigorous in the Arab world, largely by virtue of its skill at getting Marx and Mohammed to coexist (verses from the Koran are chanted in unison at party meetings). Though he is a leftist, Numeiry is an intense foe of the local Communists-partly because they oppose his plan to link the Sudan in a federation with Libya, Egypt and Syria, and partly because he is convinced that they want to undermine him. Communist Leader Abdel Khalek Mahgoub wisely kept out of sight last week as sympathetic army officers mounted their coup...
...fill a Senate vacancy in 1925. He arrived on Capitol Hill sporting bulbous yellow shoes and an "oaken-bucket haircut," but soon dispelled the notion that he was a bumpkin: he used his seat on the Public Lands Committee to expose the Teapot Dome oil-lease scandal. A steadfast foe of America's entry into World War II, he popularized the phrase "merchants of death" to describe munitions makers, later was one of the drafters of the 1936 Neutrality Act barring U.S. aid to belligerents...