Word: standoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have had a good look at the shot that beat him. For 57 frantic minutes, while a record crowd of 12,025 howled itself hoarse, the improbable Seals-an expansion team that played its first game only last October-battled the fearsome Chicago Black Hawks to a 0-0 standoff. Outmanned, outskated, outshot, the Seals somehow hung on, checking viciously as Goalie Hodge blocked, caught and kicked away no fewer than 26 Black Hawk shots...
...story is that when she entered the household, Ken sought to assert his domination by constantly using his 6 ft. 8 in. to place things out of her reach. Emily used her lack of height to place his toilet articles, etc., out of his reach. The standoff quickly developed into mutual admiration and respect, and Emily has long remained an indispensable member of the family...
...hagridden, self-doubting days of the early 1950s. There is a danger, nonetheless, that continuing and escalating disorders on the pattern of last week's outbursts could lead not to a freer and more constructive dialogue about the direction of U.S. foreign policy but to an increasingly emotional standoff between intransigent extremes. That outcome, for all the efforts of the peacemakers, would no more advance the cause of tranquillity in Asia than it would benefit the quality of life in America...
...magazine noted that Russia and the U.S. had reached a standoff in Europe and Southeast Asia, but that both had meanwhile been supplying Middle East nations with "a pretty remarkable list" of arms. It predicted that the superpowers would stay out of a Middle East war, however, because "their own soldiers and their ideological honor are not immediately at stake...
...another public trouncing. Instead, he is betting that federal court intervention will ultimately restore his seat. The trouble with this strategy is that the House is adamant in its denial of court jurisdiction over the case. So, for the time being, Powell r. the House of Representatives remains a standoff. That might just be the perfect permanent solution-for everyone but his constituents...