Word: foe
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Harvard got home ice for the first round of the NCAA Tournament, but fell to arch foe Michigan State, 13-8, in the total-goals series...
...season opened in November against the fiercest foe the Crimson had faced in four year--the U.S. Olympic Team. With Harvard alumnus Scott Fusco '86 and undergraduates Lane MacDonald and Allen Bourbeau, Team USA had a touch of Crimson. The Olympians proved as fierce as their high-scoring reputation, scorching Harvard...
...works at the cost of instituting oppressive regulations on farmers, especially small ones. It is important not to defeat it, but to do so resoundingly, in order to discourage similarly ill-considered initiatives. In particular, many animal activists see this as a trial run against a much bigger foe, the biomedical research establishment...
...vice presidential candidate Sen. Dan Quayle (R-IN), a foe of abortion, said he had no quarrel with a medical procedure he described as aimed at preventing conception after rape. Asked pointedly whether he would expect a rape victim to bear a child that resulted from such an attack, he said, "Hopefully they would seek medical attention immediately, and under normal medical procedure, life and conception would not even begin...
...blandishments. But he has yet to persuade the leaders of the key front-line states that his journeys offer more than cosmetic change. If anything, Pretoria's state of emergency is more repressive to antiapartheid forces now than it was two years ago. Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, a voluble foe of "the Boers," said stiffly, "I don't know who else Botha will meet. I have no appointment with Botha." Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, who had talks with the South African leader in 1982, demanded preconditions before talking again. There would be "no more meeting with...