Word: balked
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Instead, all indications were that Stalin last week proceeded to balk. Worried-looking Ambassador Maisky was forced to deliver a note he had managed to keep from delivering for a fortnight declaring that Russia for the time being will cease paying her share of the committee's expenses. "The question of belligerent rights," Maisky on instructions told the committee, "has nothing to do with and is foreign to the problem of non-intervention...
Last week Dr. Kopetzky appeared at the American Medical Association convention with a set of public health axioms, based on Miss Lape's survey and a survey by the New York State Medical Society. The A. M. A.'s executives and trustees were vigilantly prepared to balk Dr. Kopetzky's plan-for the minor reason that Miss Lape had not consulted them, for the major reason that it predicated a drastic reversal of Orthodox Medicine's most basic tenets...
...third tally in the sixth. Frankie Owen hit sharply to the left garden, stole second and wound up at third when the Quaker backstop tossed one into centerfield. Johns walked and so effectively rattled Jeffers that he reached the middle sack as Owen slid home on the pitcher's balk...
...this suggests that Hilton's characters are symbols, that the whole idea is an allegory. Conway may be the intelligent person who arrives through a philosophy of moderation and kindness at carthly happiness. His brother may represent the many who balk at progress, who disbelieve all doctrines that are new or that they cannot understand. The men who drink the toast in the end may be the majority who all have faith in some Utopia but have not yet seen...
That New Deal objectives would be aided by new justices is by no means sure. Senator Wheeler pointed out that, in the event of the six new men being conservatives, and amendment would be impossible, as the people would balk at a second revision scheme. The amendment process is the obvious way to attempt reform, and should not be endangered in this way. In addition, amendments are capable of swift passage if the people desire a change, President Roosevelt's manufactured crisis notwithstanding...