Word: deadlocker
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...Just before the payoff in Philadelphia, some brave experts made their final prophecies. Of 815 newspaper editors polled by the U.S. News, 417 expected Senator Arthur Vandenberg to get the nomination, 271 hoped he would. Jim Farley predicted "a deadlock between Dewey and Taft. If they get together, one of them will be the nominee. If they don't, you'll see Vandenberg in there...
...Stretch. Oregon was the last popular test before the convention. Now that the dust had cleared, it was possible to see the frontrunners. They had narrowed down to three: Dewey, Taft and Arthur Vandenberg-who, although still an unannounced candidate, was the popular choice in the event of a deadlock. Taft was up there mostly on his nerve. He was in a position to do some jockeying and bargaining. On the first ballot, Dewey would clearly be in the lead...
Warren Berg's winless (and undefeated) Freshmen baseball nine had a tough time staying that way yesterday afternoon, but with a two-run ninth inning it succeeded in registering its third straight tie, an 8 to 8 deadlock at Milton Academy...
Darkness once again killed Freshman hopes for the initial baseball win of the campaign as Warren Berg's forces battled the Boston University underlings to an eight-inning 7 to 7 deadlock yesterday afternoon on the Soldiers Field diamond...
Before the Czechoslovakian coup, Austria's hopes had concentrated on a peace treaty and the withdrawal of occupation troops. Now, Austrians hoped privately for continued deadlock in the treaty negotiations in London. So long as the occupation troops of the Western powers were present, the Austrians realized, the Communists could not take over, short of armed aggression. The Russians had been stalling on the peace treaty for months; now the Western powers might do some boot dragging...