Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Would the King's new choice be any more successful than his others? Not if the royal nemesis could do anything to foil him. Calling for a gigantic convocation of his demonstration-happy followers in Salonika, canny old George Papandreou declaimed: "Governments and Parliaments must reflect the will of the people, and neither this government nor Parliament does that. But the people's will shall win, and the people will wipe this government out of existence." In downtown Athens, 10,000 left-wing union members rallied at a theater and demanded Papandreou's return or immediate elections...
...always carry such weight. In the beginning there was so much untamed territory that early Americans could hardly imagine getting through it all, much less ruining it. President Grant, who established the first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, acted not so much to conserve as to foil a group of land speculators. The real father of conservation is considered to be John Muir, a California naturalist, who in 1890 persuaded the Federal Government to take over the Yosemite Valley and the lands around...
...longer support Papandreou's me-or-nobody policy in Parliament. They claimed the backing of another 25 to 30 Center Union members. If true, it would cut Papandreou's hard core to fewer than 120 Deputies (out of 300), making it all but impossible for him to foil singlehanded the King's next choice for Premier...
...next, one sees his genious flash through as he monologues excerpts from Antony's funeral oration and Lear's storm speech. Eyes blazing, he momentarily recaptures the brilliance he possessed as a young actor. As the aged prompter, Mike Owens is good, but is really primarily a foil for the actor...
...millions by manufacturing uncomplicated products and marketing them with single-minded concentration. Atlanta's Alvin Weeks, 41, began by mixing divinity fudge on his mother-in-law's stove; with his profits, he branched into baking, saw the potential of marketing sweet rolls in easy-to-heat foil pans, this year will sell $6,000,000 worth of "Aunt Fanny's" sweet rolls to supermarkets, airlines and other large buyers. For Cincinnati's Joseph McVicker, 34, the payoff idea was to turn doughlike wallpaper cleaner into a nonsticky modeling compound for children. Although the toymakers told...