Word: deadlocker
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...Secretary of State George C. Marshall's policy of splendid isolation from the China civil war had led to a deadlock: neither the Government nor the Communists had enough strength for a knockout punch. As the opposing forces clinched wearily last week, China, bled white by the long struggle, took a new breath. The U.S.'s three-star General Albert C. Wedemeyer was on the way to see what could be done to retrieve the losses that followed from five-star General Marshall's indecisive decision...
...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...
...been able to sit quietly in the wings at Albany, while congressional rivals and free-speaking Harold Stassen performed before a critical audience. But now it was time to start moving. Dewey needed a blitz win on an early ballot. On every successive vote the chances of a deadlock with someone like Bob Taft would increase the danger of a dark horse...
...real intersectional games--no longer a feature of today's bone-crushing schedules--next tested the eleven. Indiana succumbed 19 to 0, and Georgia was added to the list of victims by the good right too of Plaffman, whose field goal broke up a 7 to 7 deadlock. Penn State provided unexpected resistance to the team and, as the CRIMSON headline put it "Crimson and Penn State Battle to Draw Before Spellbound Thousands." The score...
...Rockbottom budged last week. Foreign Minister Molotov's note to Washington on Korea broke a long deadlock that had made the 38th parallel across Korea the most opaque of all the curtains between the Russian sphere and the rest of the world. It also meant that the world's 13th largest nation could move a step toward the independence it had not known for 40 years and toward the democracy it had never known...