Word: standoff
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...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...
...propaganda purposes, the rulers of the Communist world chose to overlook the reality of this standoff. Each time units of the Seventh Fleet ventured within Red China's self-proclaimed twelve-mile limit (TIME, Sept. 15), Peking issued a "serious warning." (By week's end Red China's Foreign Ministry was up to "the fifth serious warning.") In a wave of synthetic fury unmatched since Korean war days, millions of Chinese-205 million by Peking's count-docilely turned out to demonstrate against "U.S. armed provocations." Describing U.S. military bases abroad as "a noose around...
...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...
Illness prevented James Damis, who usually plays standoff, from entering the game, and the backfield lacked the thrust that he might have provided...
...practical matter, any service chief must win a fair share of the J.C.S. decisions for his own force; if he does not, he will be considered an inadequate service chief. Too often the J.C.S. result is a standoff, with decisions deferred or compromised. For example. Air Force doctrine holds that any aircraft carrier would be a sitting duck in a war of missiles and thermonuclear bombs. U.S. Navy doctrine holds that the mobility of aircraft carriers gives them an advantage over land air bases. Result: billions are committed to both systems, even though Navy bombers and Air Force bombers...