Word: foils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind Jergesen in epee is sophomore Paul Viita. Although he is the fastest of the sophomores and has a smooth attack, Viita has been hampered by switching from foil. In epee, unlike foil, the arm is a target. Vita has trouble defending against attacks to the arm, Jergesen said...
Only 13 hours before Gary's polls opened, the panel of judges issued a six-part injunction to foil the fraud. More than 1,000 false names were ordered removed from the voters' lists, and officials were sternly warned to obey election laws. With rumors of violence spreading in some white neighborhoods, Gary's entire 268-man police force was put on a twelve-hour shift, and Democratic Governor Roger D. Branigin ordered 300 state troopers and 5,000 National Guardsmen to be ready to move into the city on 30 minutes' notice. As it turned...
...Keller, a foil fencer who placed seventh in the World Junior Championship in Iraq last year. Marc Irvings, another foil fencer, was also on the New Jersey Junior Olympic team. The third is Larry Cetrulo. Cetrulo is now playing football, but once he comes out, Marion said, Harvard will have one of the best 1-2-3 combinations in the country. Cetrulo fences both saber and foil and was New Jersey Prep School fencing champion last year...
Nabors, who offstage is only slightly less gentle than Gomer, went to Los Angeles in 1958 not to feed his ambition but to foil his asthma. He worked as an apprentice film cutter, sang on amateur nights at a club called The Horn. TV's Andy Griffith dropped by one night, liked his country-bumpkin patter between songs and offered him a walk-on role in his series. Nabors says he was as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs, but Griffith assured him that "all I had to do was act like...
...that were as pretty as bright-leaf tobacco: their cigarette business is holding up despite recurring cancer scares, and they are making money on diversification projects. R. J. Reynolds reported record sales of $495 million and record earnings of $43,139,000 from Chinese foods, fruit punch, and aluminum foil as well as tobacco products. P. Lorillard's diversified operation accounted for record quarterly sales of $147 million and earnings...