Word: foiling
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Palin's Gilbert is the perfect dramatic foil for her. In contrast with her vivacious cunning, he can merely smile sadly and wrinkle the crow's feet around his eyes as the world shits on him. His affection for Betty even suggests that he likes playing the schlomozzle...
Freshmen phenoms Jim O'Neil and Matt Auer were the only two fencers to reach the finals. O'Neil finished fourth in the epee and Auer ninth in the foil...
...launch, a device known as a bus detaches itself and maneuvers for another five minutes or so, releasing up to ten MIRV (for Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle) warheads at different targets in the U.S. The bus may also release up to 100 decoys, many of them aluminum-foil balloons. 3) Mid-course. The warheads and decoys speed through the emptiness of space for more than ten minutes. 4) Re-entry. The vehicles plunge back into the atmosphere and toward their targets...
...number of recent public statements, Nitze has stressed that before it is deployed, a strategic defense must be certain to survive attack and be "cost- effective at the margin," that is, be less expensive to build than the offensive systems designed to foil it. It follows from Nitze's cautionary assessment that if Star Wars research fails to produce a scheme that meets those two criteria, the U.S. would be better off trying to make the best of MAD by inducing the Soviets to scale back their offenses and by reaffirming both sides' adherence to the 1972 ABM treaty...
...Rueckner punched a tiny hole in the foil, Glauber announced they were making "the world's most expensive pinhole camera." The camera successfully projected Rueckner's face onto the screen...