Word: foe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game for the Harvard men's squash team all season. They weren't a factor in yesterday's 8-1 triumph at Dartmouth, but they could make all the difference in the world (or rather, in the nation) on Saturday at 2 p.m., when the racquetmen play their toughest foe of the year, Princeton, in a match that should determine the national intercollegiate nine-man championship...
...mending 18-day tour of Western Europe, President Samora Machel, 50, was presented with a medal from Queen Elizabeth, and persuaded the British government to waive his country's payment of a $30 million debt. In Portugal, Mozambique's longtime colonial master and Machel's bitter foe during a ten-year struggle for independence, the former guerrilla commander declared that the two countries were bound "in a friendship of steel." Upon returning home, he gave his blessing to the accreditation of an American ambassador less than three years after expelling four U.S. diplomats on charges of spying...
However envious the other Democratic candidates might be of Jackson's unexpected dash into the national spot light, all may have benefited indirectly from his heroics. He not only made their expected November foe, Ronald Reagan, look ineffectual for not gaining Goodman's release earlier, but brought new stirrings of excitement to a Democratic race that had been drifting toward tedium almost before it began. For the moment, anyway, Jesse Jackson was the life of the party...
Shutouts had been shut out of the Harvard vocabulary this season. The Crimson had held the opposition to a single goal just once in 13 games, and only one other Harvard foe scored fewer than three times...
...White House. Anonymous sources accuse the Reagen White House of "gliding to gustatory glory on Carter's culinary casttails." The resulting "cookboakgate" scandal dominates conversations across the nation. President and Mrs. Reagan, meanwhile take off for three weeks vacation in the Philippines, to the constrnation of advisors, who fear foe the couple's safety as well as for relations with the island. Nancy Reagan tells the press that "Ron and I are open minded enough to ignore a little local unrest for the sake of such beautiful beaches." Reagan adds, "It may be a paradox, but their...