Word: foe
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Sanchez was a familiar, if unwelcome, foe. Suchde had played him twice during the regular season, losing both times. However, on both of those occasions, Sanchez had faced a player with an ankle injury that greatly affected his speed and mobility, leaving him a mere shadow of his customary dominating self...
...success came despite losing last year’s top player Lily Lorentzen, who transferred to Stanford after winning the ISA title as a freshman. The Crimson cruised through the early stages of the Ivy season before encountering a much greater challenge against perennial contender and nonconference foe Trinity. Harvard pulled out a win against the Bantams in front of a rowdy home crowd on the strength of an impressive comeback from Duboc. With the two teams knotted at four matches apiece and the senior down, 0-2, Duboc fought her way back from the brink of elimination to eventually...
Despite a dominant season in which it swept through the majority of league competition, the Harvard men’s swimming and diving team could not overcome league foe Princeton, as the Crimson finished second to the Tigers in both the regular season and the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championships...
...They have proved a tenacious foe. In Sunday's street battles, several of the well-armed militants holed up in residential buildings in the Zaharieh district of central Tripoli firing machine guns and hurling grenades at Lebanese soldiers who sought cover behind armored personnel carriers on the street below. Soldiers battered the cramped apartment buildings with rifle and heavy machine gun fire, ripping chunks of masonry from the walls and filling the air with dust and acrid gun smoke. It was not until early evening that the army managed to kill the last of the militants...
...decades that followed, abortion and homosexuality remained his central targets. Though he folded the Moral Majority in 1989, he remained an outspoken foe of all those whom he believed would undermine the sanctity of life and traditional marriage - including, most notoriously, the purple-purse-carrying Teletubby Tinky Winky, whom he accused of corrupting children...