Word: foil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rather than be caught off guard, the Dole campaign began to gently probe Powell's vulnerabilities. At the same time, a confidential memo written by Terry Jeffrey, Pat Buchanan's campaign manager, labeled Powell "a perfect foil for our campaign" and urged Buchanan to attack him immediately...
...jotted "party favors?" and directed that his hearse should be made to "look ridiculous" and his casket covered with smiley faces, in order to "foil Satan's ploy" of making death a somber, black event...
...accept that they occasionally go bad. "You have to make it clear-cut that you have moral standards, and you yourself have to be unswerving in them," he says, citing his own refusal to allow government contacts in Sudan to engage in torture, even when it might have helped foil plots on his own life. But, he says, it is harder for CIA officers to control behavior of their contacts when they are doing their own business rather than the agency's. "To say that you can't deal with anybody who might potentially violate human rights could...
Sophomore Sara Crasson and freshman Jill Katz qualified in the foil division. The other qualifier, freshman Mallory Stewart, represented Harvard in the epee division, which the women's team had never competed in before...
Harvard's lone NCAA qualifier was senior Kwame Van Leeuwen. Van Leeuwen, competing in the foil division, finished first in regionals and sixth in the NCAAs...