Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...session ended in gloomy deadlock...
Despite a double overtime of ten minutes, Saturday's Crimson-Penn lacrosse game ended in an 11-11 deadlock. There was no scoring during the overtime...
Wilson and Earle Slipher predicted that the image intensifier would break the Mars deadlock. Last summer when Mars came close, they attached the tube, still imperfectly adjusted, to their comparatively small 24-in. telescope. Even though the "seeing" was extremely bad during the whole period of observation, they got pictures of Mars almost as good as the best ever taken...
...remark reminiscent of Marshal Joseph ("Papa") Joffre's first attempt to deal with the deadlock on the Western Front in World War I. Said he amiably, "Je les grignote" (I am nibbling them...
...Everybody will agree with you. But how long can this nation live in constant fear without getting a generation of neurasthenics or, what is worse, a generation of the devil-may-care variety. Why wait for "the approaching deadlock"? Why wait for the time when "each has the power to smash the other into radioactive rubble"? Why not attack the enemy first...