Word: standoff
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Democratic enthusiasts claimed victory -they called it "commanding," "massive," "smashing" and "a landslide." Some landslide. In arithmetical terms, the off-year elections of 1962 were almost a standoff. And in their portent to U.S. politics for the next two years, they meant difficult legislative going for the Democratic Kennedy Administration and the possibility of real trouble in 1964. The overall results...
...right-to-work legislation and a move to transfer the state insurance compensation program to private operation. As a result, the state A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive committee voted to endorse him this year; though the normally pro-Democratic A.F.L.-C.I.O. state convention decided to make no endorsement. Hatfield regards the standoff as a "moral victory...
...literary movement, which called itself realism, whose adherents proclaimed their intent to describe the world as it really was. The prudes dealt easily enough with the mountain; it became, and still remains. Camel's Hump. They had more trouble with the literary movement. For decades it was a standoff; realism did not disappear, but neither were the early realists (themselves nearly as prudish as their critics) able to keep their promise and describe the world...
...half time, Chamberlain had scored just nine field goals, was so frustrated that he shook a clenched fist angrily at the air. Only in the second half, when Russell relaxed, did Chamberlain begin to click. By game's end, the duel had turned into something of a standoff: Chamberlain had scored 52 points, but the Celtics won, 123-113. "Winning is the important thing," said Team Man Russell, as he slouched wearily off the floor. "If a sorcerer told me, Til break your arm and your team will win the championship,' I'd be walking around right...
Following the Fifth Army in 1944 from the winter standoff in the mountains south of Rome to the headlong drive through the hills of Tuscany, he stays clear of both the trench-foot and the snafu schools of war writing. He explains why things worked rather than why they did not. His target is the "armed corporation" that has crossed the ocean to send U.S. steel flying at the enemy, bringing shiploads of filing cabinets and efficiency experts whose battle cries are phrases like "production quota" and "good management...