Word: balking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students who balk face fearful penalties including automatic $10 fines...
...railroads, which are still making money on freight, know how to make money on passengers too, and have proved it on their main-line trains. They know that it is the uneconomical branch lines which eat up the profits. Yet state regulatory bodies, often for sentimental reasons, balk at letting them be closed down. (When the Chesapeake & Ohio sought to eliminate one, oldtimers who had not ridden it since World War I protested that they would miss the whistle...
...feckless planning and design. New York City is not alone. Throughout the U.S., school boards are putting up the wrong kind of schools. They spend thousands of extra dollars on belfries, balconies, Grecian columns, fake chimneys, and dummy dormers. They balk at the idea of the unpretentious one-story schoolhouse to which rooms can be added as needed...
Derevyanko's letter accused MacArthur of permitting the Japanese government to balk democratization of the country by (among other things) crushing human rights with police brutality. Derevyanko's case in point consisted of a series of minor riots last month during which a trade-unionist demonstrator was killed in a clash with Japanese police. Replied MacArthur...
With the aid of a balk, walk, two bases on balls, and a nylon parachute the Poonsters jumped off to a two run lead in the first inning beneath the Euchre Sun. Then while the saffron sun poured its heat down on the diamond the minions of the Ibis ranged far and wide to gobble up the tremendous pows of the CRIMSON batsmen...