Word: balking
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...West Berlin, of West Germany, and of the entire Western position in Europe. But there is considerably more give in the U.S. attitude about a de facto recognition. Thus, in return for a restatement of the West's three basic rights in West Berlin, the U.S. would not balk if East Germans were to stamp papers and examine lading bills on traffic along the access routes to Berlin...
...affidavit represents a shabby attempt on the part of the government to purchase loyalty. The truly loyal will be repelled and alienated by this token of their government's suspicion, while the disloyal will not balk at signing a scrap of paper...
Besides, the affidavit provision only discriminates against students when a university acts as Harvard has. No one who is really subversive would balk at signing the affidavit, and most other students would not let it deter them from the chance for a Harvard education. Thus, only a very few, with exceptionally heightened moral sensitivities, would be discriminated against if the NDEA were operative. But when it is not, it discriminates against all who would use it, in perfect conscience, for the advancement of their education...
Feeling that the public is behind them, teachers are devising countermeasures for the opening of school in two weeks. Many plan to balk at supervising extracurricular activities, to refuse to teach overcrowded classes or to conduct and grade examinations. Even a nationwide strike of teachers is being talked about. "I can't rule it out," says Sir Ronald Gould, chairman of the National Union of Teachers...
...pinch home run by Chicago's George Altman. The American League tied the game in the ninth when howling winds turned the contest in San Francisco's Candlestick Park into a Little League affair-there were a record seven errors, a passed ball and a balk-and went ahead 4-3 in the tenth on an unearned run. But when Baltimore's Hoyt Wilhelm went to the mound, four Negro batsmen pushed across two runs to win the game before anybody was out. Milwaukee's Hank Aaron lashed a pinch single to center. Mays doubled...