Word: standoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singing the national anthem, marched 4,000 strong into downtown Bogota last week to protest the killing of a fellow student in a scuffle with police the day before. At a street corner they were halted by a cordon of rifle-bearing soldiers. For a few minutes, an amiable standoff prevailed. Then, from a balcony overhead, came the report of a pistol. A soldier fell dead...
...Meyor, Ted Carey, and Jack Dormand, all playing their first games of the season; saw considerable action. Dormand, a 36-year-old Business School student, started at standoff...
...standoff on the second point meant little, because if mass inoculations had been highly effective, the fact would have been apparent. After studying the report, one authority had a crisp suggestion: forget about gamma globulin for polio and turn it over to the states for use against measles and hepatitis...
Indiana Night. The battle was a standoff for the first three quarters. In the fourth, Underdog Oregon State took the lead for the first time, 46-45. But Oregon's Halbrook, overeager, guarded Indiana's Schlundt too closely, and went out on personal fouls (after scoring 23 points) five minutes before the end of the quarter. Indiana won the game in overtime, 76-72, for their sixth straight of the season, thanks in good part to Don Schlundt's 34 points...
...soccer games were scheduled yesterday but only one was played. Winthrop forfeited to Lowell. In the other, Kirkland and Dunster played to a 1-1 standoff. The game--which went to two overtimes--was marked by strong defensive playing by both teams. Dunster goalie Ken Rose and Kirkland goalie Al Gottschalk both stopped offensive challenges many times. Bob Walser kicked the Funster goal; Kirkland scored on a penalty kick booted by Dick Armstrong...