Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even with Fanfani out, the Christian Democrats still could not decide on a single candidate. As the balloting droned on into Italy's longest electoral deadlock, impatient Italians recalled the 13th century papal conclave at Viterbo that lasted for 31 years without naming a new Pope. In that long-ago time, the citizens of Viterbo finally locked the cardinals inside a palace, and when that failed, they tore off the roof to let in rain and cold. That did it, and the cardinals elected Gregory...
...hear that around this town, I put my hand on my billfold. Don't start that with me." Everybody roared, and the country boy declared: "By God, all I was going to say was that I'm ready to sign up." Said Johnson afterward: "That broke the deadlock. Of course, I'll never know what he was going to say when I broke in. I wonder...
Curiously enough, it was another intervening labor leader, United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, who broke the deadlock. Apparently looking for a way out of the trap his own stubbornness had sprung, the pressmen's Frazee paid a clandestine visit to Reuther at the U.A.W.'s Solidarity House and humbly asked for help. "I'll make a compromise proposal," Reuther said, "but I won't argue." Within a day, both the papers and Frazee's pressmen accepted the terms...
...country which until this session of Congress had seen almost no significant reform legislation for twenty-five years, in which the deadlock between President and legislature has been the salient fact of political life, the value of a truly Congressional President is indisputable. Moreover, Johnson's instinct for compromise is uniquely suited to the politics of a pluralistic society in which parties must of necessity be coalitions...
Harvard was held to a 0-0 deadlock by Columbia last week and could have trouble scoring today against a traditionally defense-conscious Cornell squad...