Word: default
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germany's indomitable Walter Hallstein, president for nine years, to resign over policy differences with them, two of the leading candidates for the top job turned it down flat, and Charles de Gaulle vetoed a third. Who, after all, wanted to tangle with the French? Finally, almost by default, the job went to a diminutive and quiet-spoken Belgian, Jean Rey, the Common Market's Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. Since Rey's chief qualification at the time seemed to be that he was the only candidate De Gaulle would accept, the Common Market partners feared that...
...these foreigners, it seems, matter very little. Those who want to can cultivate emigre mentalities; the rest just joke about the place. Although they are all doing jobs which are technically important, for all their nudging and advising life in Adzope goes on by default on Adzope own terms. It has to work out its own broad solutions...
...crucial: college students and graduates wishing to work in nonmilitary, international service have been unable to do so for fear of being drafted. Countless individuals have been refused deferments for educational, agricultural, or technical work in underdeveloped countries, and so returned to the once-safe haven of academia. By default, we are leaving the leadership to others. And, as in Vietnam, others who take the defaulted leadership might well be considered "enemies" in the future...
...beneficial effect of placing Micronesia a little higher on the list of U.S. priorities and increasing its share of U.S. aid and know-how. As World War II demonstrated, Micronesia, the Pacific's heartland, is far too important a part of the world to let fall by default into malevolent hands...
...tremendous triple to start everything off in the third inning. And Castoff Yankee Roger Maris, driving in still another run, his seventh of the Series, to prove that he's the money player everybody said he wasn't. And Second Baseman Julian Javier, batting cleanup by default during Cepeda's slump and pounding out a three-run, sixth-inning homer. Then there was Lou Brock. In six games, he had collected ten hits, stolen four bases and scored seven runs. So in the seventh he rapped out two more hits-and proceeded to steal three more bases...