Word: deadlocker
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...longer in acute danger of disruption, as it had been at its first meeting in London, early this year. It now faced the chronic and perhaps more serious crisis of paralysis through the stubborn inflexibility of its component parts. To stave off U.N.'s slow death by deadlock, many people looked to Trygve Halvdan Lie (pronounced Lee), the U.N.'s Secretary-General, its chief administrative officer, the man who stood closer than any other single individual to U.N.'s mechanism, if not to its heart...
Precedent bore out Kalleck's observation. On 27 previous occasions U.S. Presidents had had to contend with at least one branch of Congress controlled by a hostile party. The father of Senator Robert Taft had spent two particularly anguished years of deadlock. A sick and beaten Woodrow Wilson had watched an antagonistic Republican Senate reject his League. Hapless Herbert Hoover had scolded and quarreled while a Democratic House hamstrung him throughout the desperate end of his divided Administration...
Thereafter the game lapsed into a scoreless deadlock with neither team able to threaten. Leverett came closest in the opening period when they were stopped twice on the Kirkland 20, once with Norm Cameron's attempted field goal on the fourth down falling short of the uprights...
Lowell and Dunster moved into a deadlock for third place in the House football league yesterday as the Bellboys dumped Adams 7 to 0, and the Funsters took the measure of Eliot, 6 to 0. Because of these simultaneous victories and the fact that each team has only one more game to play, the Lowell-Dunster fracas, scheduled for next Monday, assumes the proportions of a "natural...
...deadlock continued-and so did the atomic arms race which the UNAEC was set up to prevent...