Word: balk
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...Though his batting average* through ten seasons with the Dodgers was a formidable .311, Robinson is perhaps best remembered for his daring, pigeon-toed base running. The consummate artful Dodger, his long, dancing leads and false breaks on the base paths worried more than one pitcher into committing a balk or a wild pitch. He also made a specialty of the game's most thrilling play; before he retired from baseball in 1956, Jackie had stolen home eleven times, a feat that has not been equaled since...
...briefcase an agreement in principle with North Viet Nam for the shape of a settlement, and his was the unenviable task of selling that settlement to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, whose political demise will be an inevitable consequence of the package. However Thieu might balk, Viet Nam seemed closer to the brink of peace than it has been in a decade...
...significant number of Communists into the country's political life. As a counteroffer, he proposed to recognize certain areas of the country as "under Communist control" and to allow them representation in the existing National Assembly on the basis of population. The Communists are almost certain to balk at that, for they would be hard put to demonstrate military control over more than 10% of the population...
...been betrayed by a brother union, was able to organize only a few growers. Many court battles and union confrontations later, the dust has still not settled. The Teamsters have agreed to turn the lettuce pickers over to the U.F.W. if the growers are willing. But the growers balk at the hiring halls that Chavez insists on; they want to keep the right to choose their own workers...
...students might be lucky enough to find space in an old-style Russian communal apartment, where tenants have their own tiny bedrooms but share bathroom and kitchen facilities. But apartment-mates usually balk at the introduction of an additional, unofficial resident...