Word: deadlock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sixth, Columbia brought on star righthander Nell Farber, who had already gone nine innings that morning to beat Brown 7-1. Jim McCandlish relieved Mitchell in the sixth for Harvard, and he and Farber each pitched shutout ball until O'Donnell's homer broke the deadlock in the twelfth...
Franquemont, the first Harvard wrestler to place in the Easterns since 1959, lost in the semifinals to Mark Scureman of Army, 5-4 in overtime, after the two wrestlers had fought to a wild 9-9 deadlock in regulation...
...omens seemed far from favorable. "A situation exists that could lead to a strike," said Bertram A. Powers, 42, the stubborn Irishman whose printers triggered the 114-day strike against Manhattan newspapers two winters ago. Now the printers and publishers are negotiating once more, and "deadlock" was Powers' word to describe the situation. With that, he flew to Colorado Springs to carry the gloomy tidings to International Typographical Union President Elmer Brown...
Best Friends. Two weeks ago, declaring himself pained by the disarray in the party, Kennedy proposed that the leadership issue be taken up by the legislators in a secret ballot; voting in secret, they would presumably be free of their various overlords' control and break the deadlock. Wagner was pressured into accepting the plan publicly, and even signed a statement calling for such a vote. But when he thought it over, he realized that-secrecy or no secrecy-he simply didn't have the votes...
Promissory Note. The Afro-Asian bloc of some 50 nations, insisting that the whole matter is only part of the exasperating cold war between East and West, demands that the deadlock be ended and the Assembly's normal processes resume. In the process they are willing to let Article 19 be bypassed and voting begin, after which Moscow might kick in a "voluntary" contribution with the clear understanding it would not be considered as payment for the "illegal" peace-keeping operations. Moscow generally favors this formula, but has not committed itself as to how much this vague promissory note...