Word: balk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most important problem of Muñoz' administration would be relations with the new U.S. Congress (the Republican-controlled 80th had passed the law which made his election possible). Washington thought that U.S. legislators might balk at authorizing Puerto Rico to write its own constitution, as Muñoz has recommended. But there was a good chance that Congress would give Puerto Rico a healthy economic boost by extending the Social Security Act to the overpopulated island. That would fit right into Muñoz' plans for a more prosperous Puerto Rico...
With growing vexation, the U.S. people had watched the United Nations, like a kind of 58-legged race, try to walk. It didn't seem to be able to; in fact, it seemed to have reached the point where it was lingering betwixt a balk and a breakdown. Last week, under pressure from thousands of their constituents, six Congressmen trooped before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to plead that the U.S. do something-anything-to strengthen...
Harvard tallied in the first when Bucky Harrison drew a walk, went to second on a balk, and crossed the plate on Howe's blast to deep left. In the seventh, Mort Dunn walked, went to second on a wild pitch and took third on Bud Gibbs' single to left. Gibbs stole second; Dunn scored and Gibbs went to third as Harrison struck out, and scored a minute later when Gil Richards walked with the bases loaded...
...early 3 to 1 edge, along which Ira Godin tightrope-walked until three sharp hits and a two-base error in the eighth tied up the contest. Crimson bats were ominously silent all day, the first clutch of three scores coming from a walk, two sacrifices, a balk and only...
...mark of last November. What had brought on the break? Government buying had slackened; the Government had almost all it needed for export under present goals. The winter wheat crop looked good, as deep snows had given it both protection and adequate moisture. And livestock feeders had begun to balk at paying $3 and up for corn, so more grain was going to market and less into hogs & cattle...