Word: balking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Others Balk...
...public consumption and not completely tailored for use at the University, Council member Michael B. Rothenberg '49, who stated that he was completely behind the President's food-saving program declared that the quality of dining hall dinners is currently so low that he felt the student body would balk if asked to give up food. He based his opinion, he said, on talks with members of Eliot House. The Council overwhelmingly agreed...
...themselves the Student Activities Center had to be discussed in terms of the $3,000,000 plus dollar-for-dollar endowment estimate provided by the University architects. Only after the meeting, in a hazy series of maneuvers by the Committee's Secretary, Henry C. Clark '11, apparently intended to balk publicity about the committee's activities, was a switch in figures introduced. This change was casually included in the report of the meeting. The report quoted "$3,000,000 to $4,000,000" as the Center's cost including endowment...
...Legion's own politicking was as cut-&-dried as before World War II. No revolt of young veterans materialized to balk the "kingmakers" of the old guard in their efforts to elect a national commander. The kingmakers' choice for 1948 was James F. O'Neil, police chief of Manchester, N.H. (pop. 77,685), a greying, 49-year-old veteran of the Mexican Border campaign and of World War I. O'Neil, a onetime newspaperman and a Republican, also saw action in the South Pacific during World War II as a civilian assistant to John L. Sullivan...
...nose. The blast gave Hitler a good shaking up, and as a result of it more than 50 general staff officers died. Author Gisevius, one of the few plotters who survived, went into hiding, escaped to Switzerland when the OSS smuggled him a forged passport. Readers may balk at the rightist, sometimes self-righteous tone of his book, but they will find it by far the fullest account to date of anti-Hitler plotting...