Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amused at your discussion of pickpockets [June 20]. As an ex-member of a whiz mob (pickpocket group), it is evident to me that the kind of people Detective Inspector Candlish has had his experience with are pretty crude operators. Nor is his information entirely correct. A stall is not a "runner"-whatever that is supposed to be-a stall is an extremely skilled kinetic psychologist who knows exactly how to walk alongside or in front of the "mark" (victim) so that he is forced to slow down or turn aside, right into the wire. This is called "framing...
...suggest that Nixon was proceeding with the ABM partly to have it as a handy bar gaining point. Rogers at first denied that it would ever be used in that manner, which seemed logical enough if its proposed deployment was not deemed threatening enough by the Russians to stall the arms talks in the first place. When Committee Chairman William Fulbright raised the question a second time, Rogers admitted that the ABM might, after all, prove "useful" in bargaining. Fulbright was not about to let the self-contradiction pass unnoticed. "I should not have brought up the question," he said...
With 4:38 remaining, Gallagher tied the game for the fourth time on two free throws. Again, the Crimson could not get the go-ahead hoop, and after Peters scored for the Elis, Yale began to stall effectively. Harvard was forced to make mistakes and commit fouls, and the Big Blue netted eight consecutive points to assure victory...
...gripe endlessly, snarl out of the sides of their mouths and generally brood up a storm. Finally, the boys in isolation decide to do something about it. They bust out, take over the cell block and hold the guards as hostages. The object of the whole thing is to stall for time so that a few of the riot ringleaders (Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Ben Carruthers) can tunnel under the wall and make a break for freedom...
...outgoing chairman of the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee (SFAC) revealed yesterday that he has suggested that the Freshman Council hold new elections for posts on the SFAC to fore-stall charges of irregularities...