Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fuller (167) paced the Crimson onslaught by defeating the Bruins' Dave Beemer on a default after 33 seconds of the second period. The match had been stopped twice because of injuries to Beemer and it was finally decided that he could no longer continue...
...could also force him to risk losing the support of those in the center of the political spectrum by more actively courting the hard-liners in the South. This could split the conservative vote in states like Georgia and Arkansas and give the Democrats there a victory by default...
...SALT, then, the initiative goes to the Soviets by default. Their own military and technocracy may restrain efforts at statesmanship, but these efforts must be forthcoming in order to moderate the nuclear competition...
...consider this: Ted and Alice are square (!). They are nice squares they are friendly squares, they are lovable squares. They have your sympathies from the outset-not only by default, but because they really are swell people. They want to be able to smoke pot without coughing; they want to believe in Esalen; they want to dig wife-swapping. If they rather than Bob and Carol, had gone to Esalen, they might even have been saved...
Currently the Paris talks are stalemated, for why would anyone negotiate what he expects to win by default...