Word: balk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sole agent for all Onassis ships clearing Saudi Arabian ports, collecting a fixed fee of $280 a vessel. Should Alireza die before the agreement expires, the deposition claimed, the money will go to his heirs. When Saudi Arabian officials wanted more money, said the deposition, Onassis did not balk: "Onassis told me ... he would play an important role in the development of natural resources in Saudi Arabia which . . . would make him . . . the most powerful man in the world...
...bargain with except the hopes he himself had aroused by pledging his troth to Western European Union in London. Now, with all the invitations issued, the guests on hand, the church bells pealing and the altar in sight, he was using that hope as a lever, threatening to balk unless he got his way on just one little matter...
...Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Harrison got together almost surreptitiously in London to confer with Tito's representative. For four months, Tito's man haggled. The problem was to give Tito slightly more than Yugoslav-occupied Zone B, but so little more that the Italian government would not balk...
This much was known: Indo-China. Eden now felt sure that the Communists would settle for peace in Indo-China. He was more worried by the U.S.: that the U.S. might not guarantee the settlement, and that the Communists might therefore balk. Eden would not concede that he was dissociating from the U.S., believed that...
...talks at Geneva hobbled along at a pace somewhere between a balk and a breakdown. The Communists planned it that...