Word: stand-off
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...Harvard's pass defense, going to the air immediately in the first quarter. On Princeton's first series of downs, the quarterback called three consecutive passes. Then the Tigers punted. With one minute left in the first quarter, the battle between Woods and the Harvard secondary was still a stand-off--Princeton tailback Ralph Ferraro had caught one pass, the Crimson's John Dailey had caught one pass, and seven of Woods' passes had "failed...
...Yard in the process. In his Commencement Address, Freddie Laker comments, "The line for the airbus forms right behind the Phi Beta Kappa procession." Honorary degrees are awarded to John Travolta, Nona Hendryx, Alex Haley, Jann Wenner, Larry Flynt, and Jack Ford. The highlight of the ceremony is a stand-off duel between the clam serving as Mayor of Cambridge and the "rootless" Yale Bladderball...
Officials of the University Employees Union Local 35, who are representing the strikes, have charged Yale with precipitating and prolonging the strike, claiming that the stand-off saves the university money. While the university supporting staff strikes for higher wages and better job security, Yale is not paying them any salaries...
...start of the colonists revolution, and throughout his speech the president revealed that it was more the torch than the freedom that he found inspiring. The blood of the Civil War, the corpse-ridden trenches of the First World War and the seared flesh of the Second, the stand-off of the Cold War, and the carrion of Korea--these are the events Ford cited as evidence of the ongoing fulfillment of the American dream enunciated by patriots aspiring to throw off the yoke of British oppression...
What was astonishing was the speed and suddenness of the South Vietnamese collapse. The country that had fought the Communists to a stand-off since the Paris Accords of January 1973 now seemed to have lost the ability and will to resist; its defenses simply melted away before North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces. The Communists had not yet penetrated the vital Saigon region, and there was still hope that the government would be able to defend the capital. But many Viet Nam experts, who two weeks ago were predicting only limited losses for Saigon during the current dry season...