Word: deadlocking
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...best-played match of the afternoon, Larry Sears broke a 3-3 deadlock in his third set against Steve Bank to win 6-1, 3-6, 6-3. Sears' accurate passing shots, quick reflexes at the net, and sound strategy carried him to victory...
This was a deadlock that diplomatic ingenuity could surely break-provided both Gaillard and Bourguiba controlled their apparent compulsion to put on occasional public displays of unruliness...
Amendment or no, the Eisenhower-Nixon agreement had created a vital new precedent-and in the developing federal system, precedent itself tends to blast away or to outpace deadlock.* The immediate result is that Nixon no longer need hesitate to exercise authority in the event of a disabling presidential illness. And because of that, other Vice Presidents to come will pay more attention to the affairs of the presidency, well aware that they will be expected to assume the responsibility in crisis...
...week's end, with Bourguiba firing off denunciations of the French plan to displace 70,000 people to create an uninhabited "no man's land" along the Algerian-Tunisian frontier ("an insult to humanity"), the deadlock seemed publicly as total as ever. But from backstage came reports that Bourguiba showed some signs of willingness to meet the French part way, let them retain the all-important Bizerte base provided that they evacuated all their other Tunisian bases...
...Happiest Moment." With this obstacle to unity neatly bypassed, Iraq's pouchy-eyed Crown Prince Abdul Illah flew to Amman to make the clinching decisions for his nephew, King Feisal. But another deadlock still loomed. Hussein's negotiators battled doggedly to get their master equal turns with Feisal as head of state. At 4 a.m. King Hussein, who needed federation far more than his oil-rich cousin, rose and announced that he would defer to Feisal as head of state. Hussein went into a stenographer's office to supervise typing of the final draft...