Word: balking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anything else, Sadat is anxious to carry out the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty without delay. This would enable him to retrieve the Sinai and its oil wells from the Israelis. He does not wish to get embroiled in any new controversies that might offer the Israelis a pretext to balk on the timetable, which now calls for the return of the areas containing the oil wells by next November. Explained an Egyptian member of the autonomy committee: "If we can establish the sense of permanence and stability we have today in the bilateral relations between Egypt and Israel, then...
...Palestinians, Khomeini gave an ominous warning to his country's leftists. Said he: "I shall give the final word if you continue your devilish scheming." The Fedayan had issued a warning of their own. "Hundreds of us died in our struggle against the deposed Shah. We shall not balk at dying by the thousands in a war imposed on us by imperialism and its local agents, the reactionaries...
...courts all over the country. By reading their own views into broadly worded statutes and vaguely defined constitutional rights, judges have assumed?some say usurped?unaccustomed roles. Increasingly, judges, state and federal, can be found ordering government boards and agencies to obey the law. When the boards balk, as they often do, judges end up running school boards, welfare agencies, mental hospitals and prisons. Just last month, for instance, a Boston judge placed 67 public housing projects into receivership under court control because they had been mismanaged by the Boston housing authority. Such decisions often require judges to rule...
This was an exasperating game. There was a one-hour wait for the umpires' arrival at Soldiers Field, one inning umped by a guy in street clothes, 25 hits, eight errors, two wild pitches and a balk (in the same inning), a pair of intentional walks to get to Harvard's hottest hitter, and a game-saving relief stint by Harvard's number two starting pitcher...
Save--Clifford. WP--McOsker 2. Balk--McOsker. PB--Marshall...