Word: balked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peace Corps looks for individualism, but not for too much. People who will balk at the restrictions of a foreign culture or at the supervision to which Peace Corps workers are subjected in the field are usually weeded out. The same fate usually befalls applicants who would get restless before their two years were...
Galamison wants "cross-bussing"-mass transfer of Negroes to white schools and vice versa. Many Negroes prefer the Gross approach. And white parents balk violently, aware that Negro and Puerto Rican children are increasing in numbers at such a rate that soon they will be a majority in the New York school system-in fact, they already are a 3 to 1 majority in Manhattan...
July-October. Switching to another track, the unions ask for a study by a presidential commission. The railroads insist that the commission proposals be binding. The unions balk at that. Finally the railroads agree to a non-binding study...
...protested that he lacked authority to act, explained that the issue was one for the Foreign Office to decide. After three days of wrangling, the issue was passed on to representatives of the three Western ambassadors in Bonn. There the British gave way, only to have the French representative balk, declaring he could do nothing without permission from France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who was junketing around West Germany with Charles de Gaulle. An other day passed before French approval arrived. By the time the Russians received the tripartite note "suggesting" that they revert to buses...
...night, she turns the stirrers in for cash.'' Philadelphia Police Inspector Frank Rizzo told of boozy seminars with the girls of his city: "They start on regular liquor. Then they move up to champagne. Of course, the champagne is usually wine and soda.'' "Johns" who balk at the swizzle swindle are promptly returned to their senses by a successful threat: "We'll tell your wife." The tricks are the same in the deadfalls of Miami, Cleveland and Chicago's sinful suburb, Calumet City; in the bleak hope of becoming "exotic"' dancers, many...