Word: foil
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...fencing at ECAC tournament; 6th place, sabre and foil: 8th place, epee...
...winged celestial furniture, complete with lecterns, pulpits, vases, an altar and crowns-180 objects in all. Only some of these are actually on exhibit; the throne itself is not, because it is too difficult to move. The entire construction is made out of junk, covered with layers of metal foil and kraft paper. The effect, twinkling and blazing under the museum lights, is of quite breathtaking intensity: the gold and silver may be only foil, but they go beyond rococo incrustation into a domain of absolute theatricality. Hampton's vision contains not one depiction of an angel...
...trouble centered around a relatively minor and technical point of fencing rules. Zivkovic wanted the three weapons--foil, epee, and sabre--to be fenced simultaneously on three adjacent strips. Micahnik insisted that sabre bouts go first...
While the sabre squads fell short on the strip, the foil and epee squads dominated their opponents, 6-3 and 7-2, respectively...
...foil strip, the "foreign connection"--Canadian siblings Michael and David Merner and Zimbabwean Rhodes Scholar Stanlake Samkange--teamed upinan impressive recovery after last week's defeat at the hands of Princeton...