Word: foil
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...Pope and his team almost found nuclear fission in 1934 in the course of experiments in which, looking for radioactive transformations, they systematically bombarded one element after another with the newly discovered neutron. They missed by the thickness of the sheet of foil in which they wrapped their uranium sample; the foil blocked the fission fragments that their instruments would otherwise have recorded. It was a blessing in disguise. If fission had come to light in the mid-1930s, while the democracies still slept, Nazi Germany would have won a long lead toward building an atom bomb. In compensation, Fermi...
Both Katz, who qualified in the foil event, and Aranow, who competed in the epee event, were by vritue of qualifying for the tournament among the top 24 fencers in the nation...
Penn State won the overall team championship, but two Stanford fencers took home individual golds in the women's foil and epee...
...Cardinal's Monique DeBruin won the foil by defeating Columbia's Erin Smart 15-7, while teammate Felicia Zimmerman beat the Nittany Lions' Stephanie Eim 8-7 for the epee crown...
...SHOULD WIN: Griffiths. She is thetextbook "supporting" actress, a foil for her morevisible counterpart...