Word: balk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though this stiff pill was swallowed without protest, the National Assembly proceeded to deadlock and then to balk when instructed by King Amanullah to pass a bill raising the marriageable age of females to 18. Occidentals may not realize that the chief distraction of many an aging Oriental is his new wife, aged say 14, or in extreme cases as low as seven. The Afghan National Assembly, however, positively declined to ratify the measure...
...hollow of his hand throughout the game. He allowed only four hits and struck out eight men. The potency of his spell is seen in the fact that although he committed every fault in the pitching calendar, the score was no larger. Three passes, three hit basemen, a balk and a wild pitch could not dim the glory of his hurling performance...
Homerun--Weintraub, Sacrifices--Prior 2, Lange. Stolen bases--Loos, Nebelung. Bases on balls--off Whitmore 3, off McAfee 2. Struck out--by McAfee 9, by Whitmore 3. Hit by pitcher--by Whitmore (Lange). Balk--Whitmore. Left on bases--Michigan 6, Harvard 4. Umpires--Green and Richardson...
...base hits--Burns. Donaghy, Jones, Lincoin. Home runs--Barbee, Donaghy, Jones. stolen bases--Burns 2, Chase. Hardie, Nugent, Lincoln Sacrifice hits Burns, Nugent, Struck out--by Barbee 9; by Means, 1; by Cole, 1, Base on balls, off Means S; off Cole, 27. Balk Barbee. Wild pitches...
Here Latins balk. They hark back to Liberty and Equality-Liberty to stage their own parlor revolutions if they choose. Equality with a Great Power which is simply not their equal...