Word: stand-off
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...Family Stand-Off. Not long after Whirlaway was retired to stud, in 1943, Ben himself began to talk about retiring. Diabetes and the strain of 40 hectic years on the track was beginning to tell...
...trainer and manager of the Calumet Farm Training Stable," and turned the heavy chores over to Jimmy. Since then the stable has often raced in two divisions, with horses and trainers interchangeable. No matter who tightens the saddle girths, the horses keep on winning. Financially, it is a family stand-off with each of the Joneses getting a $12,000-a-year salary plus 5% of all purses won by Calumet (or some $160,000 apiece in the last two years...
Offenses of both teams stalled in the slippery mud of the playing field, and only when Leverett took to the the air to drive for the only touchdown did the game stray from a stand-off midfield struggle...
...although the editors still shudder at the quality of the first-draft copy that arrives at their desks during a four-day heat wave, TIME is organized to achieve at least a stand-off against the weather. Being city dwellers, our harbinger of the seasons is not the robin nor any of the age-old signs; it is the medical department. When one of our researchers turned up there early last month, sunburned, peppered with mosquito bites, black & blue from having fallen into a brook, nursing a finger blistered from picking daisies, we could be sure that summer...
Harvard's lineup found Thomas as fullback, Bud Rowell and Frank Holcomb at wing, Johnny Loos and Captain Ausnit at the three-quarter position, Jon Pritchard playing his final game at stand-off half. Commander Keith Kear of the New Zealand Royal Navy and the Law School as scrum half, and Bob Kennedy, Al Weisberg, Fred Garfield, Frank Jessop, Don Cummings, Don Hodge, Rog Willson, and Robin Worthington in the forward positions...