Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practiced it to rescue damsels in distress. The Three Musketeers used it to harass the English and French nobility. Douglas Fairbanks made a career out of it. And Thursday night at the IAB 22 swash-buckling swordsmen defended the honor of their respective Houses with the sword in the foil division of the intramural fencing competition...
Harvard's duplicity in the Med Area was amply proven by its personnel-office juggling back in '72. On a tip from Ropes and Gray, the University changed the structure of the Med area personnel department, ostensibly for administrative reasons but most probably to foil a potential unionizing drive. Powers now states unequivocally that the Med Area personnel office is simply a branch of the main University personnel department which he helps administer; the union bitterly remembers that it wasn't always that...
...Crimson had built up a slim 5-4 lead after the first round of weapons, led by double victories in foil and epee. Captain Phillippe Bennett and John Major each foiled their Bulldog blade brandishers, and Matt Simmons and John Hirschfeld easily took their epee bouts. Nick Tepe was the only saberman on target however, and that proved costly as the match wore...
...were pretty depleted in the saber ranks," Crusader Brian Labrenz said, "what with injuries and the flu, but we thought foil could have gone better...
...director of RCA's Microwave Technology Center at Princeton, N.J., points out that there are well-known and commonly used countermeasures. All the embassy need do, he says, is use metal Venetian blinds, place a layer of wire mesh under its floors, and paper its walls with metal foil, which can then be covered with regular wallpaper. These precautions would not only block any incoming microwaves, but would also prevent bugs in inside walls from sending signals outside the building by microwave...