Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lowry's two losses came against Wing and Meredith Boice. In both bouts Lowry fenced over-cautiously, seeming to be, in Cooper's words, "afraid to lunge" as she frequently came up inches short of her opponent on her attacks...
...blemish on Cooper's slate came in her final bout against MIT's Jeannette (not Isadora) Wing. In her previous three bouts Cooper had breezed past her opponents 5-1, 5-0,5-0, relying primarily on her favorite tactic of waiting for her opponent to attack, then parrying and counter-attacking for the touch. But against Wing this tactic could not be used as Wing held back forcing Cooper forward. Down 3-0 with only a minute left to fence, Cooper tried two last deparate attacks which ended in touches for Wing and a 5-0 loss...
Thus ended the great spy trial that pitted an elegant, aristocratic cynosure of the Eastern Establishment against a rumpled, relatively obscure, former Communist. For many Americans, the contest was an elemental struggle between good and evil, between leftist New Dealers and right-wing antiCommunists. It divided the nation, set off widespread fears that the State Department was infiltrated by Soviet agents, and helped launch Joseph McCarthy on his hunt for Reds. Moreover, the case gave national prominence to a fledgling California Congressman, Richard Nixon, who used the notoriety to help win a Senate seat in 1950 and the vice presidency...
More and more Israelis are beginning to fear that these unauthorized but tacitly tolerated settlements may damage peace talks. Warned the left-wing daily al Hamishmar last week: "If the government does not find a way to stop 'new facts' from being created while the difficult and complicated negotiations are actually in progress, it will not only lose American support but find itself in a confrontation with Washington." Even Gush Emunim is finding it harder to get commitments from Jews willing to live in these isolated, primitive communities. The group can easily turn out 10,000 people...
...strengthened the Crimson at left wing. Murray killed penalties, brutally forechecked and backhanded and--combined with Cochrane--set up Rick Benson's second-period goal...