Word: balk
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...counter pads depicting a handsome young man being led off to a bleak cell. The slogan: "Don't lie for the other guy. Purchase a gun for someone who can't and buy yourself 10 years in jail." NSSF and BATF officials hope to get girlfriends and pals to balk when they realize they may face severe penalties for making false statements on Form 4473, the federal firearms purchase declaration...
BILL COHEN Def. Sec.'s interracial marriage, bipartisan elan help, but Dems might balk. Doubt...
...captain Jeff Bridich reached base in the first inning on an error by Yale shortstop Mike Hirschfield. After stealing second, Bridich moved to third on a balk and scored on a John Franey sacrifice...
...balk at the notion of bullying students into coming to games. Imposing guilt trips or making comparisons to other schools (Ivy or otherwise) seems to be the wrong way of getting undergrads to fill the stands...
...question--is it possible for a work of art to be just plain weird? Can art cultivate its own apolitical pathology of weirdness, like a wax museum, or is weirdness always a subversive comment on a world that is itself, a priori, weird? The Wilson twins, Jane and Louise, balk neither at the weirdness of the world nor the weirdness of the work of art. They give us something fearless and fresh, something that dumbfounds, something that makes me say in a moment without footnote, "I think I really like this, and I don't yet know...