Word: deadlocker
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...subject of all this speculation has convinced almost everyone that he himself is not a candidate. Douglas MacArthur does not think there will be a G.O.P. convention deadlock. And he is ready to campaign for Robert Taft down to the last whistle stop...
...Governor McKeldin is without question the finest orator the Republican party has today," Moore said. As the favorite-son candidate from Maryland he controls 24 votes to the national convention, he continued, "and may very well be the G.O.P. candidate for Vice-President if a deadlock occurs...
Atomic Data. There has been a stultifying deadlock in the exchange of atomic information between the two countries ever since the Klaus Fuchs spy case. Churchill and Truman agreed that scientific experts should study ways & means of ending the impasse...
...reconciliation among Cambridge Civic Association-sponsored city councillors over the re-election of City Manager John B. Atkinson failed to materialize in yesterday's City Council meeting, as a motion for an election was twice defeated on the floor. According to one C.C.A. councillor, however, the deadlock should be resolved by the next council meeting on Monday, and Atkinson will be re-elected then...
...mood of the conferences was businesslike but relaxed, often livened by dry Churchillian wit. At one point, Churchill's old military adviser, Lord Ismay, trying to break the Anglo-American deadlock over a new standardized rifle, suggested: "Isn't there some bastard Anglo-American type of fitting that could be adapted?" Churchill twinkled: "Oh, Lord Ismay, I must ask you to guard your language. I am an Anglo-American type, you know...