Word: deadlocker
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...week's end there was vague and unofficial hope that the deadlock might be broken. The British were urging the Poles to send another note to Russia, specifically offering to accept the Curzon Line as a base for negotiations...
Warren sank another foul and Ray Moley a looping set shot from almost midcourt to give the Crimson the edge early in the period. The Navy squared the count in the next two minutes, however, and neither team could break the deadlock, necessitating a second overtime period...
Cope postulated South Africa's problem No. 1 today as the racial deadlock, said it distorts all major issues brought before Parliament and prevents united progressive action on native (Negro) policy, industrialization, agriculture and a dozen other major problems. Wrote he: "Nationalists want an Afrikaans Herrenvolk Republic, British extremists want a jingo Dominion. If no positive move is made to break this deadlock, the Smuts Government will collapse within five years. Chaos will follow which may end in a fight to the death between Englishmen and Afrikanders...
Demands v. Demands. Mounting U.S. and British might, German losses, a Russian demand finally broke this deadlock. In October, just before the Hull-Eden-Molotov Conference in Moscow, Russia suddenly asked that Turkey be brought in. At Moscow, Britain and the U.S. agreed to use their strongest influence; picked Anthony Eden...
...B2H2 Senators had hammered at it.* Then came the Moscow agreement. Both Illinois' Scott Lucas and California's Sheridan Downey had the happy thought: Why not add the words of the pact to the Connally Resolution? Tom Connally was won over; so were the B2H2 supporters. The deadlock was broken...