Word: deadlocking
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...Harvard's John Keough squandered a four-point lead in the third period and gave Yale a reverse and near fall to deadlock the match, 6-6. The Elis won the decision on a point awarded for time advantage...
Halliday notched his second just 20 seconds after that and it looked as if the period would end in a deadlock. But Jim McMahon won a faceoff to the right of McQuiston at 19:08, fed it to Thorndike who was positioned out in front, Esposito style--and Ted put Harvard ahead once again...
...bombing raids that Nixon launched as part of his demand for "serious" negotiation remains doubtful. And whether the aerial assault was actually what motivated Hanoi to return to serious bargaining is still being argued heatedly -without, so far, any answer in sight. Kissinger would only say, "There was a deadlock which was described in the middle of December, and there was rapid movement when negotiations resumed. These facts have to be analyzed by each person for himself." Tho, on the other hand, insisted that the bombings "failed completely," actually delayed a settlement and were halted because of the international outcry...
...jurors voted for acquittal, by 7 to 5, then began to swing the other way. Foreman Ernest Phillips said he himself had "voted different ways." In 15 ballots over six days, the jurors leaned more and more toward conviction (while watching, oddly enough, TV reports on their own deadlock). When they declared themselves stalled at 11 to 1, the judge asked them to try again, and finally the lone holdout gave in. "I finally decided to vote that I was wrong and they were right," said Mrs. Naomi Underwood, 63. But even after voting for a murder conviction, she added...
After a slow beginning in which both teams were cold from he floor, the Crimson broke a 6-6 deadlock. The Big Green moved close several times but never caught up again...