Word: balks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Power Commission as approving interstate rates for gas pipelines and electric-power sales. It is the most politically vulnerable of the Carter proposals because DOE'S regulators would not be serving for fixed terms as an independent agency that is insulated from politics like the FPC. Congress could balk, and White House staffers admit that they are "apprehensive" about this aspect of the DOE plan. The Administration hopes to overcome objections about a lack of independence among the DOE regulators by creating a bipartisan appeals board to review their rate decisions...
...wood carver is more limited by the size of his raw material than any other sculptor. A log is a log; it cannot be melted down or extended. One can order marble to size, but no tree in China or Japan could possibly give a sculptor a large enough balk of timber to carve something as big as Michelangelo's David. Even if there was such a tree, there would be insuperable problems of technique. Wood is grainy. It favors continuous, compressed shapes with a strong axis along the grain. Anything that sticks sideways from the block...
Back-to-back singles by sophomore Doug Morgan and freshman Fred Cordova in the bottom of the first inning, an accomodating bobble by Mass Bay's centerfielder, and a balk brought Morgan home...
...youngest owner in the major leagues was watching his team in a preseason game last month when Atlanta Braves Pitcher Adrian Devine balked with two men on. As the runners casually advanced, R.E. ("Ted") Turner III, 37, jumped to his feet. "Where are those guys going?" he demanded. "The pitcher balked," someone explained. Turner sat down. Then, after a moment of silence, he asked: "What the hell is a balk...
...short five feet away--but no one pays any attention. Music is piped in from the main room and some have started dancing to it, watching themselves in the wall mirror; pouting, panting, grinding, one woman stares in a hypnotized daze at the reflection of her own breasts. People balk before turning on the water--the tilting phallic shaped faucets make washing one's hands a curiously obscene...