Word: balke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists themselves. At every sign of Western hesitancy, at every new bulletin from Dienbienphu, their price for peace went up. They no longer talked of partition; they were talking of a coalition government for all Viet Nam. If their demands become too arrogant, even the desperate French might balk. Then the Allies would have little alternative but to pitch in and help the French fight off the Communists to the bloody...
...neutrino is abolished, physics may be threatened by a more sweeping revolution. Physicists would balk at admitting that matter or energy just disappears. They would try to explain where matter or energy goes to, and the search might reveal a new world of physics...
...varsity opened the scoring, tallying a singleton in the fourth without a hit. Cleary, who had walked and stolen second, one of the six Crimson thefts of the afternoon, advanced to third on a fielder's choice and was waved in when starting pitcher Al Hauser committed a balk...
...British electorate. Many a voter is still to be convinced that Toryism has really changed. Many a Briton is more concerned to be secure in what he has than to produce (and risk) more. Many workers, asked to do in four days work that now takes them five, balk for fear they will be laid off on the fifth. Many manufacturers are content to produce for a known limited market rather than risk expansion. It is this attitude that Rab Butler has set him self to combat...
...Harvard it appears to have been tacitly assumed that everyone concerned is working seriously and industriously, and that any inadequacies which exist are thus innate faults of the program itself. This is clearly not the actual case. For the Harvard man it is evidently a point of honor to balk at a language requirement simply because it is required. The genteel art of playing the pious but utterly bewildered student is brought to its highest perfection in elementary language courses. It is a useful art, for it well conceals the fact that no homework has been done...