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Word: foil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown again started for Harvard, but this time she was unable foil the Vermont hitters. The Catamount bats came alive early in the second game, tallying six hits in Brown's two and one-third innings of work. Vermont put together six hits in the third inning, en route to scoring the only four runs of the game. Cupp came in for Brown, who was tagged with the loss, and provided three and two-thirds innings of scoreless relief, lowering her team leading...

Author: By Matthew F. Delmont, | Title: Softball Wins One in Vermont | 4/23/1997 | See Source »

...gentle presidential impostor. Since then we have probably seen more Presidents onscreen than, say, strippers and volcanologists combined. We have seen Presidents and ex-Presidents as the lead in a romantic comedy (The American President), as crabby partners in a road movie (My Fellow Americans), as an ambiguous foil for action hero Harrison Ford (Clear and Present Danger), as a work-obsessed '90s dad (First Kid), as battlers of alien invaders (Independence Day, Mars Attacks!) and, perhaps most disturbing of all, as Alan Alda (Canadian Bacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ACTING PRESIDENTS | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...defend our dining halls and often get a little defensive about food quality. Perhaps it's all just testimony to Harvard's brainwashing capacity (which is pretty damn impressive), but still, I do know people I wouldn't have known otherwise: the large people are friendly. Tapestries, plants, tin foil, and posters can do a pretty good job at disguising the interesting concrete motifs within our rooms. And where else would I live...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: We Were The Housing Guinea Pigs | 3/21/1997 | See Source »

Nabbing first team foil honors were Harvard standouts Jill Katz and Viki Danics. Equally up to the task were Mallory Stewart and Valerie Uzzell, who both picked up first team epee nods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND THE WINNER IS...ALL-IVY FENCING HONORS ANNOUNCED | 3/19/1997 | See Source »

...side, Greg Chang and Michael Gattner were voted first team foil and epee respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND THE WINNER IS...ALL-IVY FENCING HONORS ANNOUNCED | 3/19/1997 | See Source »

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