Word: deadlocker
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Harvard's phenomenal rise was "by virtue of its mighty performance in holding Navy, fifth ranking team, to a scoreless deadlock last Saturday...
...number one example of this is David Francis Egan '23, whose acid comments about the state of Harvard football during the era of Gladchuck and O'Rourke, were not meant for publication in the Alumni Bulletin. Following the Dartmouth victory Egan started his flip-flop, and after the Navy deadlock he reached down into his asbestos-lined dictionary to pull out words and phrases not used since B.C.'s adventures with Georgetown and Tennessee last year...
Some Argentine observers thought they saw connections between the Chamber deadlock and the coup. Radical Deputy Eduardo Teisaire even accused Acting President Castillo himself of having been one of the plotters. One thing at least seemed certain: Acting President Castillo had been in a position where an attempted coup, or any other excuse to adopt a strong-arm policy, could not have been altogether unwelcome...
...Deadlock. Meanwhile, reportedly on their way to Vladivostok, fast as they can plow across the Pacific, are the first units of a fleet of U.S. merchant ships bearing supplies for Russia. Some time during the next week or two they will presumably move into waters which are patrolled by Japan. These ships, said Tokyo, are embarrassing to Japan. But to a Japanese complaint last week Cordell Hull gave a cool answer. The U.S., said he, will stand by its historic policy of the freedom of the seas...
...finds infidelities among them, and at length, bored, crib-ridden, anesthetic towards her husband and afraid of losing her youth, she has an affair herself. When Tom, a simple, active man, finds out, it drives him half out of his wits, her into penitence, both into a cruel psychic deadlock whose detailing is the best thing in the book. Ultimately they stand ready for "the splendid, striving, accomplishing years of middle age," beside which "the years of youth had become a thin, pathetic dream...