Word: balk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World. With it, ambitious Jack Frye had another dream; he hoped to make T.W.A. the No. 1 round-the-world airline. But erratic, unpredictable Howard Hughes began to balk at the money Frye was spending. Frye tried to persuade Hughes that overseas expansion would pay off in the end, urged him to get new capital for T.W.A. Frye even lined it up (for example, a $100,000,000 credit line at Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co.). But Hughes would have none of it. He was not entirely sold on round-the-world expansion and he was leary of losing...
...most far reaching effect of the gate's truculence has been to instill a phobia against all gates in the malleable minds of Freshmen. Passers-by are shocked to see healthy students balk before the gates, spin around, and scrabble over the walls surrounding the Yard rather than face the mental strain of a passage through the menacing doors...
...sound idea to a silly extreme, e.g.: readers are likely to feel that Author Sartre hits the nail square on the head when he says that the anti-Semite is normally a petty bourgeois who takes "passionate pride" in being "an average man . . . a mediocre person." But they will balk when Sartre goes on to say that "there is no example of an anti-Semite claiming individual superiority over the Jews," or that "there is no anti-Semitism among the workers...
Despite its Presbyterian tie, Marie Schultze has taken her clinic far above sect. Mothers in the 100% Catholic neighborhood never balk at going to the Protestant clinic. All but one of her doctors are Catholic, and when good Nurse Schultze got her medal, a Catholic priest made the introductory speech...
There was no more scoring until the top of the fifth. In this frame Bowdoin scored three runs without getting a hit. DeKalb and Nevens walked. Moravec committed a balk, advancing them a base, Page fanned. The next man up, Clark, hit an easy grounder to Sullivan at third. In an effort to cut the runner off scoring from third, Sullivan threw the ball in to the plate. The peg was good, but it hit DeKalb in the back and rolled into the Crimson dugout, allowing Nevens to score also, and sending Clark to third from where he scored...