Word: standoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belongs entirely in the latter category. He seems to dislike women. But he also derives considerable amusement from being outrageous in his various literary poses, while needling society with invective. In one of his guises, Montherlant greatly resembles Shaw and his assertion that the sex war is really a standoff skirmish between the Man of Moral Passion and the female Life Force...
Hussein insisted on maintaining his authority. The fedayeen demanded an end to the curfew, and freedom of movement. The standoff came to an end when Sheik Akif al-Faiz, Minister of Communications and leader of the largest Bedouin tribe, threatened to withdraw his support if the king used Bedouin troops against the fedayeen. Hussein, under pressure as well from Saudi Arabia, which subsidizes Jordan's budget, promised to lift the curfew and to allow the fedayeen to keep their arms. In turn, they promised to keep their armed men off the streets of Amman...
...prizefight trainer who, in half a century, schooled hundreds of boxers, including Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers and Heavyweight Champ Rocky Marciano; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Goldman learned his ring tactics in the streets of South Brooklyn, fought Bantamweight Champion Johnny Coulon to a standoff in 1912. Two years later, Goldman turned to training, and his black derby and horn-rimmed glasses became a familiar fixture at big-time bouts. "Training a promising kid," he once said, "is like putting a quarter in one pocket and taking a dollar out of another...
...organization going in Texas. We're going to win Texas. You know how a town looks after a cyclone has passed through? Well, that was what we looked like in California. New York? Not even Bobby Kennedy could put that together. Now New York is a standoff. We're going to win it. We've had to get all the aunts and uncles and cousins to agree to come back and have a family reunion and family picture taken together...
...arms race has approached its outward limits. "A nation can reach the point at which it does not buy more security for itself simply by buying more military hardware," he cautions, "and we are at that point." The U.S. and the Soviets, he suggests, have reached a Mexican standoff: "It is futile for each of us to spend $4 billion, $40 billion or $400 billion-and at the end of all the spending ... to be relatively at the same point of balance on the security scale that we are now . . . What the world requires is not a new race toward...