Word: foiled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...studded along the frontier within sight of each other monitor every yard of the fence and the barren strip of no man's land behind it. The nine road, eight rail and two canal crossings are tightly guarded and brightly floodlit at night. Traffic is minutely inspected to foil escapes. Heat-sensitive devices are used to detect persons hidden in vehicles and barges, and trained German shepherd dogs roam underneath all trains to sniff out would-be escapees clinging to undercarriages...
...residents of Ajo, where the survivors were taken, are normally indifferent to the plight of aliens, but they collected money for the Salvadorans. The Legal Aid Society plans to go to court to foil any plans by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to expel them, and Arizona's Senator Dennis DeConcini asked the Administration to permit the aliens to live in the country that they had tried so desperately to make their home...
DIED. Milburn Stone, 75, veteran character actor who as the vinegary yet avuncular Doc Adams in TV's popular Gunsmoke series played friend and foil to James Arness's Matt Dillon and Amanda Blake's Miss Kitty throughout the show's 20-year (1955-75) run; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif. Stone became so strongly identified with the role, for which he won an Emmy, that he once quipped, "To everyone except my family I'm Doc. Getting so I have to restrain myself from making house calls...
...glowing parable on the indivisibility of love. At the apex of his craft, O'Shea could enter an actor's Hall of Fame with this one performance. Mettlesome, high-strung, bursting into a boy's wounded tears or unlaced laughter, Roberts' Mark is a worthy foil. But perhaps the most exciting find of the evening is the directorial debut of Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald. Subtly and surely, she weaves a mantle of sentiment without sentimentality, and provides off-Broadway's Manhattan Theater Club with a luminous seasonal swan song. -T.E.K...
...visitors continued to hit Stewart hard in the third. Left fielder Don Allard pulled off a perfect imitation of Skaff's catch to foil one drive, but Gary Donaldson hit one over everybody moments later and ended up on third base with a triple. A walk, stolen base and two-out single later, Army led, 5-1, and Bill Doyle had relieved Stewart on the mound...