Word: balk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some readers may balk at Adams' often gawky, round about sentences, his fondness for such words as "ilk" and "ichor." But they will be grateful to him for having followed with vigorous impartiality the twists and turns of a morbidly fascinating, often tragi-comic life...
...been before. "Japanese Christians will love their land and people in defeat with a more profound love than ever before. They will probably trust their leaders with less criticism and more loyalty." Missionaries returning to Japan will be greeted with deep suspicion. Young Americans who could replace them may balk at giving their lives to missionary service in an enemy country...
...lobby leering over its shoulder, could not offer the Cubans a higher price unless they gave domestic U.S. sugar-growers a price increase. Further, the action might set a precedent: Brazil would want more for its coffee, and other nations, chafing under U.S. ceiling prices on their products, might balk at contracting ahead...
...with Winston Churchill without informing his cabinet. Young Venizelos was afraid that the supple premier was playing too close to Britain and the cause of Greek monarchy. He was also afraid that the Leftist EAM (Greek Committee of Liberation) representatives who had finally agreed to come to Cairo would balk at entering a pronouncedly royalist cabinet. So Sophocles resigned, figuring that from six to nine of his disgruntled fellow ministers would follow his lead and that Papandreou would...
Frazer's unhappiness came from a swirl of rumors that spread from Detroit: he was putting Graham-Paige and other companies together in a new combine to balk Ford; the Fisher brothers were in; the Fisher brothers were out; Atlas Corp. was buying Graham-Paige heavily in the open market...