Word: standoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seconds remaining to play, the varsity sextet was tied, 5 to 5, by an inferior Yale team at New Haven's Ingalls Rink Saturday night in its last game of the season. With nothing at stake but Harvard's hockey supremacy, unchallenged since the 1951-52 season, the standoff was little better for the Crimson than a defeat...
...Kean of the Crimson should take the high jump, and the pole vault is a standoff between Tom Blodgett and Yale's Jim Anthony. Princeton may provide some opposition in the jumps and pole vault...
...relies too heavily on scraps from the daily press, and often reads as though it were threaded rather than written. And while there is a firmer effort to be objective, the method of quoting both for and against a man or an issue frequently results in a Mexican standoff. And so many people are quoted in an effort to get "behind the mask" of Roosevelt that the reader begins to long for a page of forthright analysis from the historian rather than a mess of scraps from people with masks of their own to keep in place...
...fastest, roughest, and most exciting soccer games ever played at Harvard, Pennsylvania and the Crimson battled to a 2-2 standoff last Saturday. The tie kept the varsity in first place in the Ivy League with a 2-0-1 record...
...answer was the status of the offshore islands. Given the military standoff on Quemoy, the U.S. now seemed willing to offer as its bargaining counter neutralization of the Nationalist-held islands along the China coast. Though it would not consider turning the islands over to Communist rule, the U.S. was prepared to contemplate an agreement under wliich Mao would commit himself to leave them alone and Chiang would cease to use them as bases...