Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable that the authors should have fashioned a dreary evening out of such potentially interesting material. In the U.N. they have an original setting for a play, in the delegates they have characters expressive of national as well as personal viewpoints, and in the East-West deadlock, they have an inherently dramatic situation...
...their compounds, "Where are the esteemed explainers? Do take us to see them." Meanwhile, all five members of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission argued the question: Should they force the North Koreans, by tear gas, bullet and bayonet, to listen to the Communist explainers, and thus break the deadlock...
Nearly a month had passed since the U.S. and Britain announced their plan to break the eight-year-old deadlock over Trieste. Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia was expected to boil with anger, and he did. But he was also expected to calm down and resign himself grudgingly to the Allies' fait accompli. The disquieting fact last week was that Tito showed little sign of calming down...
...goals. The first was a second period penalty kick which oozed its way through the goalie's legs. The second was a sensational 30 foot shot after a pass from Marv Weiss. Haegler drove it high into the left corner of the cage to break a 1 to 1 deadlock, midway in the final quarter...
...paid by a third-class postmastership. At the G.O.P. convention in Chicago last year, Warren's California delegates did cast their votes for the Eisenhower side in the battle of the contested delegations, but that was the proper strategy for Candidate Warren, who was then hoping for a deadlock. When the balloting for President came, California voted for Warren and never switched. In the campaign, Warren made only late, routine efforts for Ike, and he conspicuously snubbed his fellow Californian, Richard Nixon. Some Administration bigwigs were disappointed that they had not been able to choose...