Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Past." Many press accounts managed to read into Ike's observation an endorsement of Nixon for next year's nomination. It was, of course, a mere political truism-and no one knew it better than Nixon himself. To be sure, he said, if there was a Republican deadlock, his name would come up. But, he insisted, in practical political terms, "deadlocks are a thing of the past...
...week following Harold Macmillian's retirement, Lord Home was everyone's second choice. While R. A. B. Butler and Lord Hailsham split bitterly in quest of the Prime Ministership, Home waited patiently for a deadlock, hoping for the appointment as a compromise candidate. Both the deadlock and the appointment came, but the compromise was only illusory. In seeking to resolve the Butler-Hailsham conflict with Home, unflappable Mac inadvertently produced nothing short of a party revolt...
...Pope's decision broke the deadlock. The bishops approved Suenens' proposals in favor of collegiality. They turned down a Curia-sponsored move to make the Virgin Mary a major subject of debate, and passed a Curia-opposed proposal to revive the order of deacons in the church. With Munich's Julius Cardinal Dopfner, one of the four moderators, gaveling them onward, the bishops quickly approved a chapter in the liturgical schema on sacred art that approved "modern" art but condemned extreme abstractionism. This week they moved on to debate a second key schema that pinpoints the division...
...negotiations, he frightened labor leaders with threats of en actment of a German version of the Taft-Hartley law, then turned on management and extracted a substantial wage boost for the workers, though not nearly so much as labor was demanding. Similarly, he stepped in to break the deadlock between the U.S. and France during the Geneva talks on Common Market tariffs last spring...
...Russians, which prompted many dollar-conscious Congressmen to ask whether there was still any real need to conduct the Apollo moon shot as a cash-eating crash venture (see SCIENCE). And further slashes may be in prospect. The subcommittee, reconsidering its vote, wound up in a 4 to 4 deadlock on a later move to pare the appropriation to a bare-bones $4.2 billion. The measure now goes before the full committee, where Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, the chairman, aims to cut out as much...