Word: balke
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...aides (one presidential adviser had slept two out of 60 hours) found the detail work to be hard going. The U.S. wanted to call for a 50% reduction in "comparable nuclear systems." The Soviets, whose earlier arms offers had counted nuclear weapons quite differently from the U.S., continued to balk. Finally, at 4:45 a.m., nebulous compromise language was reached: a 50% reduction to nuclear arms "appropriately applied...
...change their country from a weak, backward state pushed around by foreign powers to a mighty modern nation. Deng has remained a model Leninist in the sense of countenancing no challenge to the Communist Party's role in leading society, even when portions of the party balk at carrying out his reforms...
...moved to third base on a balk and was driven home by Zak Farkes with an RBI groundout. Vance went 2-for-4, recording his seventh and eighth doubles of the season...
Unger got the No. 9 hitter Jonny Weiss to chop what should have been an inning-ending grounder to third baseman Steffan Wilson, but Wilson’s throw skipped past junior Josh Klimkiewicz at first, scoring Flynn and advancing Weiss to second. A balk, a walk, a passed ball and a pair of hits later, it was 6-0 BC, and the Crimson could never recover...
...seven-inning game lasted just 1:20...The Crimson had two runners picked off of first base in Game 1, something Walsh said was partly due to Hamilton’s questionable pickoff move. “I asked their coach after the game if it was a balk,” Walsh said. “And he said, ‘yeah, but he’s a senior so you won’t see him again.’”...Cornell didn’t get a running game going, either, perhaps...