Word: balks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself. The two even joined hands for a while in Spain. But while committed to give moral aid to each other, no German-Italian understanding to give military help was ever put down in black & white. In fact, rainbow-chasing French and British politicians believed that Italy would balk before it came to that...
...envoys in London at two extremely angry sessions that they could not have what Germany could wrest by her Might; instead, they must delay their claims until a later date. The psychologist of Prague correctly judged that this would be the point at which Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain would balk, telling the Führer at Godesberg that, while one piece might have to be carved off Czechoslovakia, it was impossible for His Majesty's Government to make themselves a party to forcing the triple-butchery of carving off three chunks, one each for Germany, Poland and Hungary...
...people who balk most strenuously at Director Falk's opera-in-Enghsh policy are neither the public nor the Pier management, but the singers themselves. U.S. singers who had learned their roles in French or Italian objected to relearning hem in English, claimed that the transated words did not roll off the tongue so trippingly as the original...
...Newspaper publishers have been able to balk regulation by shouting that the freedom of the press is being threatened, but they really mean monopoly of the press," declared Henry W. Harris '20, feature writer for the Boston Globe last night in a Student Union talk...
English Critic Frank Swinnerton has said that Huxley "may yet lead his generation, and the younger generation, into a state of grace out of which great things will come." However much they admire Huxley's encyclopedic knowledge and acid wit, followers are likely to balk at the regimen he lays down for those who want to achieve a "scientific-mystical conception of the world." It includes meditation, love, compassion, intelligence, moderation, physical fitness, chastity, which the ex-idol of sophisticates defines as "one of the major virtues." The energy created by sexual restraint "is the motive power which makes...