Word: balks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's surging economy attracted more and costlier imports. To prevent a repeat, the U.S. is demanding that Japan and the European Common Market nations buy more and sell less in America. President Nixon is making protectionist mercantilist threats about what he may do if they balk...
...became, apparently, the first American scholar ever to be jailed for protecting sources, there were angry charges of Government transgression on the freedom of scholarly inquiry. The real issue was whether grand juries should be free to ask almost any question a prosecutor wants asked, and whether witnesses who balk should be imprisoned...
Summing up press coverage of the campaign Columbia Journalism Review Editor Alfred Balk lamented: "My heart bleeds for our trade." Yet there were some praiseworthy exceptions by reporters and writers who dug beneath the bleak surface to uncover new material and insights. The greatest impact was probably made by the Knight Newspapers' Clark Hoyt, who unearthed Tom Eagleton's medical history. Laurels also go to the Washington Post's investigative team of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, young reporters who diligently pursued the Watergate affair and, during much of October, made daily national headlines with their findings. Other outstanding performances...
...Though his batting average* through ten seasons with the Dodgers was a formidable .311, Robinson is perhaps best remembered for his daring, pigeon-toed base running. The consummate artful Dodger, his long, dancing leads and false breaks on the base paths worried more than one pitcher into committing a balk or a wild pitch. He also made a specialty of the game's most thrilling play; before he retired from baseball in 1956, Jackie had stolen home eleven times, a feat that has not been equaled since...
...significant number of Communists into the country's political life. As a counteroffer, he proposed to recognize certain areas of the country as "under Communist control" and to allow them representation in the existing National Assembly on the basis of population. The Communists are almost certain to balk at that, for they would be hard put to demonstrate military control over more than 10% of the population...