Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both teams traded points until it was a 15-15 deadlock. The longest set of the night--which lasted for 45 minutes--finally ended with a missed shot by the Crimson, and the Bulldogs squeaked out a win to take the set and the match...
Imagine Harvard tying Oklahoma, and you can picture the scene of jubilation on the Crimson bench as the stickwomen--after 90 minutes of exhausting play--forced a 1-1 deadlock with the nationally-ranked Huskies in front of 40 spectators...
...deadlock continues, Reagan will eventually have to deliver on his repeated warnings that continued detention of Daniloff will sour all U.S.-Soviet relations. But for the moment, the President is acting like anything but the hip-shooting cowboy of liberal legend and his own past oratory. That he is willing to risk alienating his own bedrock conservative constituency for the sake of keeping the hope of an arms-control deal alive says much about the pressure of presidential responsibility in reshaping the attitudes of any occupant of the Oval Office...
...once again, the Crimson fought back to a 10-10 deadlock...
...victories this year against the troops of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Iran recently launched a new drive to create 1,000 new battalions of Revolutionary Guards. Many experts say Khomeini is preparing an all-out assault against Basra, Iraq's second largest city, in an effort to break the deadlock in the war. Says a senior international-relief official who has worked on both sides of the marshy trenches: "The Iranians are certainly beginning to act as if victory is now within reach...