Word: balk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard to do it even in the last weeks of the World War. But it is impossible to get it when we are not even trying. It is impossible to get it when our retreat from strict neutrality has angered both sides, one because we profess moral sympathy but balk at active aid, the other because we sit behind a Neutrality Act hurling curses and threats. It is impossible to get it when we have given up hope and resorted to a huge program of preparedness...
Things changed with the War. And people no longer jammed a smoke-filled room to watch the balk-line wizards. So Ben came to Harvard...
...Received and balked at the President's fourth (and last) proposal to reorganize and consolidate Federal bureaus. Major shifts: Weather Bureau from Agriculture Department to Commerce Department; Food & Drug Administration from Agriculture to Paul McNutt's Federal Security Agency; the hitherto independent Civil Aeronautics Authority to the Commerce Department. Major balk: against hobbling CAA and abolishing its Air Safety Board...
...biggest question in Scandinavia was no longer who would win the Russo-Finnish war but who was next on Joe Stalin's list. And yet, the Swedish people might not yet know how thoroughly their Government had given collective security in the North the miss-in-balk. Socialist Deputy Flyg, long vociferously antiCommunist, s pilled the beans in his Stockholm newspaper Folkets Dagblad and thereby forced the Government to acknowledge just what had been going on between it and the desperate, beleaguered Finns. The revelations...