Word: balked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What's Being Done? Noise costs U.S. industry an estimated $2,000,000 a day in workmen's compensation (for noise-related injuries), lost man-hours and decreased efficiency-but industry has been slow about putting in adequate controls. U.S. airlines, for example, balk at installing adequate jet noise suppressors, estimate that reduced engine power would cut payloads by 13 passengers per plane. Truck-line operators remove factory-installed mufflers in the mistaken belief that vehicle performance is sharply improved. Despite growing public pressure for noise abatement, few U.S. cities have adequate noise-control ordinances...
...Somewhat surprisingly, it is a flat-footed film with plodding photography and drab symbolism; the plot line (roughly Romeo and Juliet) has been reworked often enough; at least a fifth of the script might have been cut; furthermore, the propaganda element is badly disguised, and modern audiences tend to balk at any propaganda as a sign of poor taste. Despite these faults, Sky Without Stars succeeds absolutely; it has a shockingly desperate story to tell and three good actors with which to tell...
...Goodman, a young man needs faith. He must be able to work hard, to lose himself in his work because the community supports him. But this sort of faith (in vocation) is today rare, and most teenagers become either "early-resigned" (those who, though qualified for the rat race, balk at submitting to it) or "early-fatalistic" (those who, underprivileged, never get a chance to get into the rat race...
...united only by a negative sentiment: Help us, but keep hands off. Rather than a reliable "bloc," the neutralist group is a cluster of ambitious and often impulsive leaders, most of them mutually jealous, many of them open rivals. Few show any practiced moderation in diplomatic maneuver, and most balk at accepting leadership from any self-appointed tutor. Tito dreams of leading the whole neutralist world, but is suspect to Africans and Asians as both a white man and a Communist. Nasser, who cannot even bring the entire Arab world under his wing, flirts with the notion of African leadership...
...Millions of Americans who voted for President Eisenhower [may] balk at electing his successor. For, just as historians tell us that Richard I was not fit to fill the shoes of the bold Henry II, and that Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle, they might add in future years that Richard Nixon did not measure up to the footsteps of Dwight D. Eisenhower...