Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appeal to the tyro lies partly in the fact that it need not be expensive. Basic equipment, in addition to the glass, can be bought for less than $50. It includes: a glass cutter, a breaker (for splitting the glass), a grozier (to grind off errors), copper foil or lead (to hold the pieces together), a lathekin (a wooden tool) to flatten the foil on the glass, a soldering iron, a lubricant (usually kerosene) to make the cutter run smoothly on the glass, a flux (a solution to make the solder adhere to the foil or lead). New techniques, such...
Jimmy Carter is not the only person to have been re-born recently. The second birth of foil fencer Gene Vastola led the Harvard swordsmen over Columbia, 15-12, Saturday at the IAB, in the Crimson's last dual meet of the season...
...epee and foil, Harvard could capture only three bouts. Epeeman Bob Tillman blew junior Olympic pentathlete Mike Storm away, 5-3, in his opening bout by pushing out to a 2-1 lead and then, as time ran out, getting touches by extending his arm as Storm attacked...
...foil, Eric Mendelbaum and Dave McClees both conquered Rich Berlin, but neither they nor Gene Vastola could dent the armor of Penn's Robert Wolfson and Jack Tichacek, who are now 23-1 together in the Ivies this year...
Does anyone know the difference between foil and epee...