Word: standoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soccer Standoff...
...Florida, post-convention switches in political allegiance produced a high-level standoff. After resigning as Palm Beach County Republican committeewoman, Mrs. James Dinsmore Tew II last week announced that she planned to campaign for Adlai Stevenson and "never felt stronger about a candidate in my life." The same day Mrs. Bessie L. Boyd announced her resignation as Democratic committeewoman from Dade County (Miami). Said Mrs. Boyd: "We need a change in Washington...
Last week, after the votes were counted, the pundits could detect little, if any, psychological radiation. The vote was almost a standoff: Taft, 64,619; Ike, 64,004. Ike carried 38 counties, Taft 30. Taft's power in the rural areas, enhanced by his speeches for farm price supports and against universal military training, was largely offset by Ike's strength in the cities...
...shipboard press conference before flying back to his Paris headquarters, took a longer view. He spoke with an optimism that would have seemed merely wishful two years ago. What he sees ahead, now that the West is able to confront Russia with growing strength, is a military standoff, without war, in which the West ("unless a lot of us are pretty stupid") could sustain forces on a maintenance basis, without an endless series of $60 billion annual U.S. defense budgets. When military parity is reached, he said, the world would enter a higher, "ten dollar" kind of struggle-between opposing...