Word: balking
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...this would be the wrong time for the judiciary -- and specifically the three-man panel which will begin hearing evidence on the HUAC case this week -- to balk at risking a confrontation. For it is HUAC, and not one Court, which has violated the separation of powers, by becoming a mechanism, in Justice Black's words, of "exposure for exposure's sake." As Black stated in dissenting from the majority opinion in Barenblatt, "all the questions in this case really boil down to one -- whether we as a people will try fearfully and futilely to preserve democracy by adopting totalitarian...
...field, the intermittent rain didn't prevent the Crimson defense from playing an errorless game. In the second inning, a spectacular barehand play by third baseman Jim Tobin on a Cornell bunt and a pickoff throw to second base by catcher Joe O'Donnell nullifield two singles, a balk, and a walk, killing the Ithacans' only potentially big rally. Box Score ab r h rbl Dockery, lf 4 1 1 0 Neville, cf 3 0 2 1 Grate, ss 4 0 0 0 Hootstein, rf 4 1 1 0 Tobin, 3b 2 0 0 0 Welz...
Governor Volpe threw the ball, and the Red Sox--despite some fine turns at the plate and in the field--bungled it. After twelve innings of neck-and-neck play, Baltimore was handed a little wild pitching--culminating in a balk--and a 5-to-4 victory over...
...part of its six-year, $700 million highway safety bill, the Administration requested discretionary authority to establish automobile safety standards-and fully expected Congress to balk. As it turned out, Congressmen complained that the Administration had not gone sufficiently far or fast. Senator Abraham Ribicoff, a stern evangelist of traffic safety when he was Governor of Connecticut, urged that the Administration should be required, not authorized, to set safety standards, adding that in any case they could not be incorporated until the 1970 models. Asked Ribicoff: "Are we going to watch 50 million new cars roll off the assembly lines...
Baseball players who balk at signing contracts are as much a sign of spring as the first shoot of onion grass. Dealing from grand isolation, the holdouts usu ally settle, after a few ritual parries, for quite a bit less than they want. Some thing new has come along that could forever upset that balance. For the first time in baseball history, two players have teamed up to hold out as a unit...