Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jews sometimes use a name change when a child is very sick in order to foil death. Chaim, meaning life, is often chosen as the new first name, so that when death comes looking for the child, it will not find...
...degree in jail and now defends the poor and downtrodden. His legal methods are pushy, his language rough, but you can be sure he gets results for his clients. Smartly enough, the series' creators have also provided the hero with a perfect foil: Patrick O'Neal as an elegant corporate lawyer who takes Kaz into his firm. Whenever it seems that Leibman might burn a hole in the tube, Old Pro O'Neal trots out to cool things down...
...Administration must try to get along. The Fed cannot press a tight-money policy so far as to prevent the Treasury from borrowing enough to cover the budget deficit (that would mean Government failure to pay its bills, which would shake the whole financial structure), but it can foil Administration policy by being tight or loose. So every chairman becomes a nonofficial adviser to the President...
Beneath a small honeycombed disc on the front of the camera is a thin, gold-coated plastic foil diaphragm that acts as both transmitter and receiver of sound. The diaphragm emits a millisecond "chirp" that bounces back from the object aimed at and, in a series of steps that take a fraction of a second, fixes the lens at the precise focus, from 10 in. to infinity. Not an accessory, the device is an integral part of the camera, which will go on sale late this year. List price: about $280, v. $233 for the regular SX-70, which produces...
Somewhere along the way of the next two batters missed a sign for a squeeze play, as Ravinas checked Billy Blood, Pearce, and St. John to foil the Crimson's most convincing threat...