Word: balking
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...Crimson collected another two runs in the fourth. Skip Falcone got to second when the Tufts center fielder dropped his pop-up, went to third on a fielder's choice, and scored on a balk. Gary Miller walked, advanced on the balk and Jim McLandish's single, and scored when the Jumbos' shortstop foolishly threw the ball to second base with...
With the support of France's famed Pianist-Teacher Marguerite Long, Monique is negotiating with piano manufacturers. Despite engineering problems, she hopes to have a working model by the end of this year. To traditionalists who balk at her spaceage innovations, she explains: "The evolution of these instruments has been steady. The clavichord said all it could. Then came the pianoforte, and eventually it said all it could. The time has come to give the piano a new franchise, a new life. A golden era is opening for the piano, if only the piano is ready...
Most clerics think that the change is purely verbal and balk at Pike's plan Bishop Francis W. Lickfield of Quincy, Ill., head of the Anglo-Catholic American Church Union, warned that the step could create "serious division" in the church. In the end, Pike postponed the ceremony until he can argue his case before next fall's House of Bishops meeting...
...general feeling pervades the young, dynamic segment of the profession that many significant reforms should come within the next five or ten years. While many teachers are willing to criticize the system, some balk at efforts to effect concrete change. As one reader put it, they have too much of a stake in the old ways, in preserving the practices which make a teacher's job in some ways one of the least demanding in India today...
...wear it to excess became in Balk's version...