Word: balked
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...biggest question in Scandinavia was no longer who would win the Russo-Finnish war but who was next on Joe Stalin's list. And yet, the Swedish people might not yet know how thoroughly their Government had given collective security in the North the miss-in-balk. Socialist Deputy Flyg, long vociferously antiCommunist, s pilled the beans in his Stockholm newspaper Folkets Dagblad and thereby forced the Government to acknowledge just what had been going on between it and the desperate, beleaguered Finns. The revelations...
...himself. The two even joined hands for a while in Spain. But while committed to give moral aid to each other, no German-Italian understanding to give military help was ever put down in black & white. In fact, rainbow-chasing French and British politicians believed that Italy would balk before it came to that...
...envoys in London at two extremely angry sessions that they could not have what Germany could wrest by her Might; instead, they must delay their claims until a later date. The psychologist of Prague correctly judged that this would be the point at which Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain would balk, telling the Führer at Godesberg that, while one piece might have to be carved off Czechoslovakia, it was impossible for His Majesty's Government to make themselves a party to forcing the triple-butchery of carving off three chunks, one each for Germany, Poland and Hungary...
...people who balk most strenuously at Director Falk's opera-in-Enghsh policy are neither the public nor the Pier management, but the singers themselves. U.S. singers who had learned their roles in French or Italian objected to relearning hem in English, claimed that the transated words did not roll off the tongue so trippingly as the original...
...Newspaper publishers have been able to balk regulation by shouting that the freedom of the press is being threatened, but they really mean monopoly of the press," declared Henry W. Harris '20, feature writer for the Boston Globe last night in a Student Union talk...