Word: deadlocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Standish and Gore Ball fought to a 4-4 deadlock in the first annual intra-House indoor baseball game among the Puritans. Tom Bilodeau, Varsity baseball man, starred for the Standishites, while Bill Welch stole the spotlight in the ranks of the Gorites...
...Locarno Room, after Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had strewed a few autumn leaves of noncommittal oratory, proceedings opened with this double-barreled deadlock: 1) Japanese Chief Delegate Admiral Osami Nagano ultimatumed that nothing else was to be discussed until naval parity was conceded to Japan. Britain counted on the U. S. to bear the brunt of insisting that the 5-5-3 ratio be maintained with Japan at the short end. 2) Italy, while expecting 5-5-3 to dynamite the conference, was adamant in her standing demand for naval parity with France, which in turn maintained her standing refusal...
Lowell fought Eliot to a deadlock of one match apiece. Lowell's League C team piled up a neat 4-1 count to offset Eliot's complete 5-0 walkover in League...
...surprises in the Conference, probably because we all understand what each nation wants. ... Of course we don't have to agree at this Conference." Then his official conscience pressed upon him and he added: "But it might serve as a stepping stone to a later agreement." With deadlock already achieved, the U. S. State Department resigned itself months ago to the fact that no new treaty would come from this year's Conference. The British accepted the fact but were not resigned to complete failure. Omitting bigwig statesmen, whose presence would only steer the meeting into the dangerous...
...Having been agreed for some time on a partial report covering all other features of the Social Security Bill, conferees recessed until this week to await completion of a complex compromise aimed at breaking their long deadlock on the Senate's amendment permitting private old-age pension systems...