Word: deadlock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles employers decided to break the deadlock. Last week they closed down the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors until the Luckenbach strike was called off. By week's end, as 15 ships lay idle and 3,000 longshoremen were out of work, the employers received some unexpected encouragement...
...Massachusetts, Joe Martin climbed into his black Cadillac, began his usual circuit-riding around the 63 communities he represents, listened to ideas, complaints and gossip, made careful notes of it all. Speaker Martin, who might pop up as a compromise candidate in case of a complete deadlock at the Republican presidential convention, also announced that he too, like Tom Dewey and Bob Taft, would take a trip through the West. Who had suggested the tour? Some Congressmen. Any political significance? None, said poker-faced Joe Martin...
Grimly, Johnson said that the U.S. was ready, if the Russians continued to deadlock the Council, to throw the whole case into the 55-nation U.N. General Assembly this September. There, unhampered by the veto, the majority of nations might pronounce an overwhelming moral judgment which would support U.S. aid to Greece. With such a mandate, said Johnson, the U.S. and "like-minded members of the United Nations" could join "in taking any steps which might become necessary . . . to afford Greece the protection to which she is entitled under the Charter...
They might try to escape the boredom of debate and deadlock by fiddling with their pencils, twiddling their thumbs or staring at the floor and ceiling. But one fact the members of U.N.'s Security Council could not escape last week: history was at their throats. The debate was on the U.S. formula for a two-year peace watch by the United Nations on the war-threatened borders of Greece. There, like the pebble that starts an avalanche, even a minor explosion might precipitate events that would involve the world in a third global war. Would Russia, the power...
...release, he was forcibly inducted into the Army, forcibly dressed in uniform; a tall Welsh Guardsman, who was to escort him back to Wales, ordered him to shoulder his pack. Homer refused. The deadlock continued till a crowd gathered. Finally a grey-haired little man stepped forward, quietly picked up the pack and murmured: "Come along, Arthur." It was Arthur Horner's father. Arthur's finish to the story: "Of course, as we got round the corner, I took the pack from the old man-but I was damned if I was going to cave in under...