Word: stalls
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...thicket stood two rows of dasoyils, the dome-shaped folding huts used by wandering Ogaden herdsmen. There were two shops stocked with canned goods, boxes of spaghetti and bolts of cloth, a café where men sat drinking cups of steaming spiced tea laced with sour camel milk, a stall where a cobbler took orders for made-to-measure goatskin sandals. Camels groaned in protest as their owners loaded them up with sacks of rice, flour and sugar; the sounds blended unevenly with the bleat of goats and sheep grazing on the scrubby vegetation of a nearby field...
After a two-minute stall, the Quakers called time out; and on the ensuing inbound pass, Allen grabbed the ball and deposited a clean layup off the steal, narrowing the score to 70-64 with 2:43 showing on the clock...
...Modified Stall Sequence...
...game neared the three-quarter mark, Columbia had moved to its biggest lead of the half, 63-58, and had moved into a modified stall which ate up nearly two minutes...
...twenty to four the President still had not arrived. General Spinola had finished his meal, and was anxious to meet the President. Wallraff could only stall for time: he had only learned of Spinola's visit the day before, and had not yet succeeded in finding a 'President' to greet him. The previous night he had approached several friends--a lawyer, a doctor, a publisher, a member of the Bundestag, a vicar and several professional actors--but none would agree to play the role. Now, despite frequent and frantic telephone calls, Wallraff could not find a suitable President. At four...