Word: balke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take place until 1971 or later. The price of admission is certain to be designed to reduce Britain's international influence. For example, the French are expected to insist that Britain gradually withdraw the pound from its position as a world-reserve currency. Wilson is not likely to balk at such suggestions because leading Britain into the Common Market would offset his failures on other fronts...
...this would be the wrong time for the judiciary -- and specifically the three-man panel which will begin hearing evidence on the HUAC case this week -- to balk at risking a confrontation. For it is HUAC, and not one Court, which has violated the separation of powers, by becoming a mechanism, in Justice Black's words, of "exposure for exposure's sake." As Black stated in dissenting from the majority opinion in Barenblatt, "all the questions in this case really boil down to one -- whether we as a people will try fearfully and futilely to preserve democracy by adopting totalitarian...
...field, the intermittent rain didn't prevent the Crimson defense from playing an errorless game. In the second inning, a spectacular barehand play by third baseman Jim Tobin on a Cornell bunt and a pickoff throw to second base by catcher Joe O'Donnell nullifield two singles, a balk, and a walk, killing the Ithacans' only potentially big rally. Box Score ab r h rbl Dockery, lf 4 1 1 0 Neville, cf 3 0 2 1 Grate, ss 4 0 0 0 Hootstein, rf 4 1 1 0 Tobin, 3b 2 0 0 0 Welz...
Governor Volpe threw the ball, and the Red Sox--despite some fine turns at the plate and in the field--bungled it. After twelve innings of neck-and-neck play, Baltimore was handed a little wild pitching--culminating in a balk--and a 5-to-4 victory over...
Baseball players who balk at signing contracts are as much a sign of spring as the first shoot of onion grass. Dealing from grand isolation, the holdouts usu ally settle, after a few ritual parries, for quite a bit less than they want. Some thing new has come along that could forever upset that balance. For the first time in baseball history, two players have teamed up to hold out as a unit...