Word: balking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reds discovered that in the first game. On a raw autumn day at Fenway, Tiant put on a one-man show. Though he was called for one balk on his pick-off move to first base, the wily pitcher more than made up for it by tossing a five-hit shutout. Twisting and turning on the mound like a particularly well-fed cobra, the portly Tiant mesmerized the Reds with his dizzying motion, then drove them to desperation with an improbable assortment of pitches and speeds, including a rainbow curve that seemed to take 30 seconds to reach the plate...
While Cincy's hitting and fielding are somewhat appreciated by the Eastern press, the Reds pitching is highly underrated. Don Gullet is second to none in the NL, and he does not balk. Gary Nolan, who has made the comeback of the year, possesses one of the most baffling change ups in baseball, a change-up which allowed Nolan to strike out 15 straight Boston Red Sox batters in a 1968 exhibition game...
...machine that records the shape and transparency of your fingers on a strip of magnetic tape--no central files are kept, so the authorities don't know anything about your hand--is no more invidious than the cameras they use for bursar cards now. People who don't balk at showing an ID card every time they want to get into the dining room or the library stacks should have no qualms about hand prints. It's the same principle. The new system is only a way of letting a michine do what people did before, on the theory that...
...London pub in 1969 that John Cleese and Graham Chapman, gagwriters for the Frost Report, teamed up with Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle, similarly disaffected writers from Britain's then booming satire business. They decided to start their own program. The BBC did not balk when told that the show would be "anarchic and free." Recalls Cleese: "They thought they were getting another latenight satire show. It wasn't that at all." Constantly testing sketches on one another, the Pythons were bent on turning English literary and verbal humor into a series of sight gags. They...
...through negotiations with the Communists. The pressure to extricate the Americans would ease considerably if the two sides worked out a political settlement, though that would almost surely require Thieu's resignation as a first step. For Vietnamese refugees, matters would still be difficult. The Communists might well balk at the departure of South Vietnamese nationals and could try to prevent it. But there is also a hope that Hanoi, sensitive to world opinion, would allow some Vietnamese to escape as part of a final political settlement...