Word: balks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprising that one of Mailer's sharpest criticisms of Kate Millett is that "she has a mind like a flatiron, which is to say a totally masculine mind." He reacts against Millett and her feminist tome, Sexual Politics, on an immediate, instinctual level, the way he might balk if a woman sauntered into an all-male sauna in which he was sweating and luxuriating. He seems to feel instinctively that Millett simply doesn't belong where she roams, that she's misguided and out of her ken. His bafflement over another liberationist, a female pamphleteer he mentions early...
Aboard a Scandinavian Airlines flight from Oslo to Copenhagen last month. Borten handed a document marked for-trolig (confidential) to another passenger, saying: "This is interesting. Read it." The document was a report indicating that the European Economic Community would probably balk at the special terms Norway demands as a condition of its entry into the Common Market. The other passenger was Norway's leading Common Market opponent, Arne Haugestad, head of a pressure group called the People's Resistance Movement Against Membership in the EEC. "For your private information," Borten cautioned as he gave the paper...
...members in 10,000 locals can be persuaded to surrender some of their extraordinary bargaining powers. This week the first indications of the union position are likely to appear when the construction trades' executive council holds its annual midwinter meeting in Miami Beach. If the unions balk at cooperating with Nixon, say top Administration officials, the President will hardly be able to escape a bruising battle. Nixon would prefer to avoid a showdown because the hardhats have enormous political influence...
...President who thinks he can exist with grace from this twenty-year error is a President who, when confronted with the possibility of the look of defeat-resurgence of the Communists, collapse of "Vietnamization"-will balk and grope for new "protective reaction," new flexing of the muscle, new acts of bravado, new targets of opportunity, new military adventure, up to and including, I deeply fear, the threat of the use of tactical nuclear weapons. There will always exist, waiting in the wings as an anguished President frets, persuasive peddlers of new ways to "win" this unwinnable...
...still uncertain whether Merrill Lynch will absorb Goodbody by itself, or sell some Goodbody offices to other firms. Such sales would please both federal trustbusters and some competitors who grumble about how much bigger the Goodbody bail-out will make Merrill Lynch. Some exchange members may balk at voting for the assessment but,if necessary, officers of 35 wealthy firms are ready to round up the money themselves...