Word: deadlock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...area of agreement has been reached," said the Paris reports one minute. Next minute the word was: "Complete deadlock." The outcome of the Big Four talks at Paris was still uncertain (see below), but it remained probable that the Russians wanted a limited settlement in Europe. They wanted it not because they had stopped being Communists committed to world revolution, but because Communist progress in Europe had been checked while Communist progress in Asia was rolling right along...
...rich Po Valley and on the sunlit Roman plains, a strike call went out last week to 400,000 braccianti (landless farmhands). They wanted a nationwide contract, with better pay and job security, between their unions and the landowners. Months of collective bargaining had ended in deadlock-and Italy's most disturbing disorders since the Red riots of early...
...Harvard and Princeton will ever reach a decision on the rugby field it will have to be today down at Princeton. Already the teams have played to two ties, one a 3-3 tie in Bermuda back in April, the other a scoreless deadlock on Soldiers Field one fortnight...
...daylight saving time had begun one day earlier, Harvard might have won its golf match with MIT Saturday. As it was, darkness closed in at 6:50 p.m. before three tied games could be played off, and the match ended in a 3 1/2 to 3 1/2 deadlock...
...brilliant 35 yard penalty kick with two minutes left to play by Princeton's John Cotter gave the visiting Tiger rugby squad the three points it needed to tie up the game and resulted in the second consecutive deadlock of the 1949 Harvard Princeton series. This time the final score was 3 to 3. In Bermuda it had been...