Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard needed to wage a comeback in the foil bouts in order to have any chance of victory. Despite two wins by John Major, Cornell's Don Massiales, an all-Ivy selection, got a little help from his lamey that finished the Crimson...
Ambassador Moynihan, by valiantly defending the U.S. against the absurd charges of third world dictators, has done much to foil their attempts to draw attention from their own disastrous civil and economic policies, providing a great service to both Americans and third world citizens. Furthermore, by weakening the self-serving attempts of dictators to create antagonisms between the peoples of the U.S. and the third world, Moynihan has performed a truly reconciliatory role in the relations between these peoples. It is, in any case, absurd to claim that Moynihan's statements at the U.N. were leading to antagonistic relations with...
...Crimson took the foil competition 7-2 and the saber matches 6-3, but got sliced up 0-9 in the epee competition, which coach Edo Marion called "pathetic and ridiculous...
Despite a crucial first bout loss by freshman Jean Vastola, the foil team cut their opponents down to size as captain Phillipe Bennett '76, one of the nation's top college fencers, and John Major '77 both swept all three of their duels. Vestola took only one of his three bouts...
Bennett said the foil squad has a good chance of winning this year's "Iron Man" trophy for the best college foil team in the East...