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With precise execution Penn scored eight points at the start of the last half while the Crimson gave up the ball without a shot three times. However, with eight minutes left in the game, Harvard narrowed Penn's lead to six, and the Quakers went into a stall...
...moved toward the stairs nervously as the three attempted to stall him. "You people are just giving me a hard time," he said, and then ran down stairs...
...bundle-laden suburban housewives all lined up along the elevated platform for the "noon rush hour." And still one more thing. The sheer face of the aquamarine federal court building mirroring the progress of the lumbering train as it dives into the tunnel and pulls into a lower stall under the Loop's Union Station...
...successes. In the Middle East, a U.S.-backed General Assembly resolution successfully cooled the Suez crisis of 1956, but that plus was wiped out in 1967. When Cairo demanded that the U.N. pull out its 3,400-man Emergency Force, U Thant swiftly complied rather than try to stall for time. It was one of the more spectacular misjudgments of Thant's flaccid, nine-year stewardship. As a result, Egypt began mobilizing near Israel's borders, and the Six-Day War was on. In the Soviet invasions of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Nigerian civil...
...process would require ten years at best. The Werner report envisages proceeding by stages, beginning with an effort to narrow the allowable fluctuations in exchange rates of Common Market currencies from the present 1½% to 1.2%. Nationalistic jealousies, or even a surge of inflation, could stall the effort. In their negotiations to enter the Common Market, however, Britain, Norway, Denmark and Ireland have accepted the concept of economic and monetary union. Europeans are increasingly convinced, says Triffin, that this may be the only way for them "to regain monetary sovereignty already lost...