Word: foil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCarthy sat in his Senate office wearing an air of conspiratorial secrecy. He tapped a pencil on his desk and kept the tap water running in the washbasin to foil, said he, any hidden microphones. McCarthy confided the name of the "Russian agent" to only the committee, and to a few newspapermen. Soon, every cab driver and casual Washington visitor knew that McCarthy's "top Russian agent" was Owen J. Lattimore, director of Johns Hopkins' School of International Relations...
...Overholser placed fourth for the Crimson in the epee competition at the NCAA Fencing Championships Friday and Saturday at Wayne University, Detroit. Joe Vera, the Eastern Intercollegiate foils champion, finished 10th in the foil matches...
...With the foil and saber tournaments over, Kirkland is in front with six points, while Lowell and Leverett are tied for second place with four...
Kahn defeated the four opponents he faced to win the House title in a grueling two hour session. Both he and runner-up Traub represented the Crimson on last year's freshman team. Traub was one of the top saber men, while Kahn specialized in the foil and epee...
...fencers, as a team, tied for sixth with Columbia and Pennsylvania in the foil competition and were tied for tenth with Princeton in the saber...