Word: foe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phones. On the seas and in the skies, the enemy is tracked by an armada of instrument-laden ships, balloons and buoys, aircraft and weather satellites that feeds intelligence into a support force of computers. But this is a bloodless war. The only object is to study the foe: Asia's mighty monsoon, the great seasonal winds that annually bring life or death to hundreds of millions of people...
Becky Tung, bothered by a bum knee, nonetheless managed to rule the central court position and take her match in three games. Tung stepped into position efficiently, held the shot, and forced foe Liz Toomlin to stay constantly on the defensive...
...assembled marchers in the familiar songs: Kumbaya, Amazing Grace and Oh, Freedom. More candles were lit, more wreaths dropped on the steps, and an undercurrent of bitterness broke through the sadness. "Are you happy, Anita?" asked one crudely lettered sign in cruel reference to homosexuality's hated foe, Anita Bryant...
Ohira was also helped by the backing of the wealthy and politically crafty Tanaka, who is a longtime foe of Fukuda. Tanaka, who still heads one of the strongest L.D.P. factions despite the corruption charges, helped devise Ohira's winning strategy, which was to lie low until two weeks before the vote, then launch a costly, eleventh-hour campaign blitz. Lulled by the polls, which consistently showed him with a comfortable lead, Fukuda never had time to counterattack...
...Administration's voluntary wage-price guidelines are getting off to a shakier start than friend or foe had anticipated. Kahn, the anti-inflation czar, does not have enough staffers or even telephones to accommodate the torrent of questions from business and labor leaders seeking clarification of the complex program, with its ambivalent language and infamous algebraic equations for figuring out how much prices may be raised...