Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard junior Dave Hanower also stayed unbeaten, capturing all three rounds at first foil. The loss to illness of top epee Rob Kaplan hurt the Crimson, although after losing the first round across the board, the three epees stormed back to take four of the remaining six matches...
When Winston Churchill married Clementine Hozier in 1908, more than 1,000 guests jammed St. Margaret's, Westminster, in London. It was the marriage of the season, indeed for 57 seasons to come. Clementine's Edwardian dignity proved to be the perfect foil for her husband's tempestuous brilliance. She played her part so well that Oxford University, in 1946, awarded her an honorary degree as the "Soul of Persuasion, Guardian Angel of our country's guardian...
Unfortunately, Isham's Phillip spends a lot of his time in the second half doing battle, as the play's complications take a more serious turn. Shakespeare uses Phillip's moral rectitude as a foil for King John's growing deceitfulness...
...archetype for modern airlinese ("We've got a little ol' red light up here on the control panel that's tryin' to tell us that the landin' gears're not... uh ... lockin' into position"). He is also the book's main foil, a member of a vanishing breed of hot-rock pilot in an age of increasingly automated flight...
...SCREENPLAY strains with the Kennedy model and an intrusive Hollywood morality. But the excellences in character acting balance any such flaws. Melvyn Douglas, a reliable old pro, plays the aging, once powerful Senator Birney, whose friendship Tynan must betray. Alda's best moments come when he is Douglas's foil; Tynan feels contempt for the old man's politics but cannot help sympathizing when Birney lapses into senility and the Cajun tongue of his youth. Rip Torn plays a hilarious cameo as the libidinous buffoon, Sen. Ritner...