Word: foil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saberman (who can score points with a thrust or slice anywhere above his opponent's waist) may cut loose and whip his man across the back with a bruising blade. Even a city-bred college boy is seldom happier than on that rare occasion when his button-pointed foil (which scores points only when its point touches the torso) rips through a protecting canvas jacket and draws a few drops of blood...
Kaden, runner-up in both the foil and sabre events, quickly defeated fellow Gold Coaster Phil Villers, 3 to 0, to gain individual point honors among the House entrants with 11. Kaden's stiffest opposition came in his semi-final match, where after repeated attacks and parries, he finally overcame Bill Hooker of Kirkland, 3 to 2. Runner-up Villers triumphed over his semi-finalist opponent, John Watson of Dunster...
Thomas, who was second in yesterday's sabre matches, was also second in the foil matches on Monday...
...total of eight entered the sabre matches from five Houses. Monday afternoon 18 entered from the Houses for the foil matches. The epee meets are scheduled for tomorrow...
Both these books tell of adventure on the China coast, as anti-Communists go ashore to fight or foil China's new masters. One book is fiction, the other nonfiction, but both are based on long and firsthand experience of China's tragedy. Both books celebrate the unsung Asians who continue fighting Communism long after Western statesmen have put them down on the Red side of the world ledger...