Word: balking
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...ambassadors of the Latin American republics, and was received warmly. He warned his listeners not to expect too much from the conference: his best hope, at this stage of the preliminaries, was to advance German reunification into the framework of specific negotiations. Dulles added that should the Russians balk at taking such a small step, their intent could not be peaceful. "This Geneva meeting," Dulles told a press conference before he left for Europe, "is the way to put the so-called Spirit of Geneva to work...
Scelba's persistence almost fooled Pella & Co. The businessmen of the Liberal Party, whom Pella had counted on to balk at more land reform, accepted the program rather than bring on a crisis...
...pure crystals easily pressed into ingots, will be put into pilot production by National Research Corp. under a $1,183,495 contract from the General Services Administration. National Research expects that it can lick the big problem of impurities in the metal that has caused aircraft makers to balk at wide...
...story is the same in Los Angeles and Chicago. Furthermore, the Post Office Department itself is starting to balk at the price of helicopter mail. Though helicopters cut delivery time from Los Angeles to ten nearby communities by 15 hours or more, the payments are so out of proportion to the saving that the Post Office would like to shift to trucks...
...court assembles (probably Oct. 1), Strydom expects it to endorse his apartheid (segregation) policies. Another likely possibility is that he will ask judicial sanction to strike out the present guarantee of equality to the English and Afrikaans languages in the schools and in the government. Should the court balk, Strydom is prepared to pack it a second time. And if he still has difficulties, his Nationalists are confident that they can pack Parliament as well, by appointing new members to the Senate. Eventually Strydom intends to make his country a Boer republic, seceding from the British Commonwealth. He has promised...