Word: foiling
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Miss Cummin, who lives in a single in Briggs Hall, has placed seven black shower curtains around the walls and gold tin foil on the ceiling. Two black umbrellas hang on one wall, and green fringe from a hibiscus tree in the window...
...battle plans in a speech before the Mississippi state legislature. "All that I am advocating is that these forces of evil bridle themselves in their lustful desires to destroy the South," he said. Like Mississippi's Ross Barnett ("your gallant Governor"), Alabama's Wallace hopes to foil desegregation by making himself "chief official defendant" in a fight against the "Department of Iniquity," meaning Justice...
...bureaus in Luxembourg and Brussels, and through a Pan-European chain of correspondents, Agence Europe has continued to pry into Common Market affairs with uncommon energy. One Market official in Luxembourg complains that every time he opens his desk drawer, "out pops an Agence Europe spy." To foil Gazzo and his men, the European bureaucracy runs security checks on its own typists and secretaries, once hired a female acquaintance of Gazzo's as a counterspy. The scheme fell through when the lady loyally peached. When Britain's Common Market mission moved to Brussels two years ago, its members...
...saber, rated the Crimson's strongest event, Paul Zygas scored two victories and John Kennedy and Roger Barzun each won once, but the N.Y.U. team managed an overall 5-4 win. N.Y.U. also took the foil events...
...struggled out of her pink sweater, kicked her red Mary Janes back and forth, wriggled up into Mama's lap, stretched and yawned. Finally Caroline piped: "Doesn't anybody ever eat around here?" Whereupon Jackie fished into her purse and came up with a piece of foil-wrapped candy . . . Next day, during a tour of the White House, the whole troupe got to meet Caroline's daddy...