Word: foils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire to cook with. I have made them: over an open fire wrapped around a green stick, on a flat rock under an old auto fender, on a piep an tilted in front of a fire, under an old dishpan on top of a range, on a piece of foil under a piece of corrugated-tin roof, and the product was eaten with relish by all at hand...
...friendly South Korean peasants, who are constantly tipping off the police to infiltrators or spies who turn up in their villages. Nearly 90% of the 57 Communist infiltrators caught in the past year were captured on information supplied by villagers. In fact, it was four village woodcutters who helped foil North Korea's assassination attempt on President Chung Hee Park last January. Just to keep peasants in the same cooperative mood, Park has put up bounty signs all over the country ("Become a patriot and get rich by catching a spy"), and raised the reward money for informers from...
...other Crimson duelers fared less well. In the sabre Bob Barnard and all-Ivy Ron Winfield could muster only three wins apiece, as did Cliff Ruderman in the foil and John Reitz in the epee...
...outpointed the other 12 squads to capture the three-weapon team title. Columbia's swordsmen dominated the round-robin individual tournaments with a sweep of firsts in the foil, epee, and sabre...
...March, Winfield will compete in the sabre for Harvard at the NCAA tournament in Detroit. Captain Harry Jergesen in the epee and freshman Tom Keller in the foil will also represent the Crimson...