Word: deadlocker
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...drive Janet into a mental home. He discovered Pauline to be more than "a sort of good-looking clotheshorse little pipsqueak of a schoolteacher." But, in finally winning Janet away from her, he learned the truth of their relationship and didn't want Janet any more. This triangular deadlock, unsolvable within its own limits, was forced to a happy end for Ray and Janet when Pauline's plagiarized lit erary efforts were exposed and she chose the little pearl pistol as the best...
Civilians grew restless as the deadlock persisted, as formula after formula was proposed, discussed secretly, discarded. So did 26 former Communist Deputies who were released from prison by General Giraud in March. Said their manifests...
...Diplomat's Defeat. The breaking of the deadlock had been preceded by secret talks among General Giraud, General de Gaulle, Minister Murphy and his British colleague, canny Harold MacMillan, who commented: "Better to have an argument now than civil war in France later." Winston Churchill may also have had something to say. Clearly London and Washington were pleased over the agreement in Algiers. But to broad-shouldered, ingratiating Bob Murphy, whose inclinations - and those of many of his operatives - are toward the Best People and not the People, the victory of De Gaullism was a sharp defeat...
Legislative adjournment was set for midnight April 20. Came midnight and an apparently hopeless deadlock over taxes; the clocks were stopped. At 6 a.m. the Governor left for a cat nap at his home in South St. Paul. He was back in his office at 10; the Legislature was still wrangling...
After three days, the tax deadlock was broken. The Governor's compromise had won. Harold Stassen drank a glass of milk in celebration. To the Governor's office came tall, husky Lieut. Governor Ed Thye (pronounced "thigh"), Harold Stassen's hand-picked successor. Said Ed Thye: "Governor, if you hadn't staked all your chips on me, I wouldn't be where I am today, and I want you to know I appreciate it." Said Harold Stassen, with proper modesty: "You did it yourself...