Word: deadlocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trial of Los Angeles Physician Bernard Finch and his pretty mistress, Carole Tregoff, both accused of murdering Finch's wife, lasted four months (TIME, Feb. 15). Last week, after deliberating for nearly 40 hours, the Finch jury (five men, seven women) signaled a hopeless deadlock. The split: 10-2 for conviction of Bernie Finch on a murder charge, 4-8 for conviction on the charge of conspiracy to murder; for Carole Tregoff, 4-8 for conviction on the charges of both murder and conspiracy to murder. Wearily, District Attorney William McKesson told the defendants to prepare...
...Carry on the talks seeking to solve the nuclear-test deadlock...
Canadians watched with some foreboding as the Union Nationale ministers, clearly split, closeted themselves in Quebec City's famed Chateau Frontenac hotel. Significantly, Duplessis' closest crony, Attorney General Antoine Rivard. faded fast as a candidate. In a deadlock between Montreal and Quebec City factions, Dark Horse Barrette, a Joliette (pop. 19,000) insurance broker who still carries a union card as a machinist, emerged as the com promise...
...longest deadlock under Plan E took place in 1948 when the Council took 1,321 ballots to choose a mayor...
...best chance of beating Jack Kennedy), in Oregon (where Favorite Son Wayne Morse will muddy the results anyway), and in the District of Columbia. His fondest dream is to pick up 150 to 200 delegates (needed to win: 761), and then hope against hope for a deadlock that calls for an all-out liberal...