Word: deadlocker
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...night owls twiddled their dials, got, instead of their accustomed Gene Krupa, Eddy Duchin, Tommy Dorsey, et al., a new crop of studio musicians-trios, quartets, unknown bands, variety shows. No one liked this much, but at week's end no one had moved to break the deadlock...
...general Prime Minister Mackenzie King has simply followed such requests and advice as the United Kingdom sent along. London figured all last winter that World War II would be a long-drawn-out deadlock. It would have taken amazing Canadian initiative and daring to get ready for a different sort of war from that the Mother Country was figuring to fight...
...this chaos of counterclaims, one possibility grew more likely: a deadlock that might allow a dark horse to romp away with the nomination...
...eight or nine enthusiasts who are already circulating blank petitions to be signed and sent to the Republican nominating convention in Philadelphia June 24 are banking on a Taft-Dewey deadlock to bring their candidate to the fore as presidential timber...
...invasion of Scandinavia, Germany began the real war, according to Professor Emerson, who believes that the Allies may welcome a fight in Norway as a break in the deadlock which grips the Western Front, even though the Nazis have again stolen the initiative...