Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Canadian air-safety experts are comparing notes on the often dangerous ways cigarette addicts try to foil lavatory smoke detectors. Smokers frequently remove batteries from the detectors, while other passengers carry shower caps to cover the devices. Some smokers have been caught desperately blowing smoke into vacuum-operated washbowl drains and toilet bowls. Other fliers find legal but far more elaborate methods to circumvent the law banning smoking on domestic flights of six hours or less. Tobaccoholics traveling coast to coast have been known to book a stopover in Mexico as a legal way of obtaining a smoking seat aboard...
When Schwarzkopf came home from the war zone last week, a crowd gathered before dawn to foil his attempt to sneak quietly back into the country at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. The band played a victory march and the national anthem, and the fans wearing STORMIN' NORMAN FOR PRESIDENT T shirts waved flags and yellow balloons as sea gulls wheeled overhead. "I can't describe to you the emotion that's in all our hearts," he said, with his first words on American soil in 239 days. "It's a great day to be a soldier...
...parallel takes in all the areas where the Kurdish refugees are now concentrated. So Washington's action in effect establishes most of northern Iraq as a safe haven in which Kurdish refugees would be protected from attack and U.N. and other officials could distribute relief unhindered. That would also foil two of Saddam's objectives: to tighten his control by pushing rebellious populations clear out of the country and to use refugees in effect as an offensive weapon by forcing them across frontiers in numbers large enough to disrupt the societies of neighboring countries...
...epee team won 6-3, but this was not enough to overcome a 6-3 loss in sabre and Yale's 9-0 sweep in foil. Despite the loss, the men's team, led by senior Tony Loeser, has qualified to participate in this weekend's regional tournament. Qualifiers from this weekend will go on to participate in NCAA...
Saddam Hussein may have engineered the spill to foil any allied plans for an amphibious invasion, but he was also probably trying to shut down seaside desalination plants that provide much of the fresh water for Saudi Arabia's Eastern province. Another target may have been Saudi power stations and oil refineries, which rely on seawater for cooling. Saddam's action will not prevent an invasion, says the Pentagon, but temporary shutdowns of plants and refineries seem inevitable...