Word: tough
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Trying for its first Ivy League fencing victory, the varsity fencing team lost to a surprisingly tough Penn squad, 16 to 11, Saturday at Philadelphia. The Crimson won in foil, 7 to 2, with captain Bill Trebilcock taking three straight bouts, but the Quakers reversed the foil score in the other two divisions. Tonight the varsity will travel to Worcester for a contest with Holy Cross...
...freshness and dancing vigor of the words is Playboy's only great distinction, except perhaps for a quality of tough-spirited, oddly joyous compassion--which amounts largely to the same thing. The plotting is tenuous, and the characters while vivid and attractive do not take up permanent residence in the mind, as great comic characters do. The cast of the present revival is not much help. But the play has lived fifty years on its dancing words alone, and it is alive and lovely still...
Quaker Joe Carriere will lead a tough sabre squad against Manuel Cabral, Mike Woolf, and Jon Piel. An overwhelming margin in this division could give Penn the points it needs to win the meet...
Brown has lost to league-leading Cornell and to Yale, but the varsity can expect a close, tough contest today...
Nicholson should give sophomore Bruce Hunter a tough contest in both the 50 and 100-yard freestyles. Against Navy, Nicholson was clocked at 23.1 sec. in the 50. Hunter's best effort this season was 22.8, and the race should be close...