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You know you've been holding it to block me and force me to buy at your figure." "That's why I bought it," the other admitted smilingly. "Then, before I realized my position, you checkmated me with that quarter-section in the valley, and we've been deadlocked ever since." "I'll give you a dollar a thousand stumpage for your timber, Bill." "I want a dollar and a half."
At this point of his narrative the old man halted as if to impress Ellen not only with what just had been told, but particularly with what was to follow. The reciting of this tale had evidently given Sprague an unconscious pleasure. He glowed. He seemed to carry the burden of a secret that he yearned to divulge. As for Ellen, she was deadlocked in breathless suspense.
It would probably have at most a small machine-gun or so, which might fire an explosive shell at the balloons of the enemy, or kill their aeronauts with distributed bullets. The thing would be a sort of air-shark, and one may even venture to picture something of the struggle the deadlocked marksmen of 1950, lying warily in their rifle-pits, will see.
Aerial Attacks on Cities Some of the Achievements of the Airmen in the Great War Deeds of Heroism and Daring Zeppelins in Action Their Construction and Operation Most Prolonged Encounter in History Between Gigantic Forces A Far-Flung Battle Line Germans Face French and British in the Aisne Valley and Fight for Weeks Armies Deadlocked After a Desperate and Bloody Struggle
As the long weeks of the struggle wore on, increasing daily in bitterness, multiplying the apprehension of the strikers and the restiveness of the coal consumers, Mitchell bore the increasing strain with his customary calmness and self-control. After the parties had been deadlocked for many weeks, President Roosevelt called the mine owners and the union leaders to a conference in the White House.
"Well, Mary V! What are you doing here?" Johnny echoed promptly, choosing to ignore her question. "What is that to you, may I ask?" Mary V challenged him. "What is the other to you, may I ask?" Johnny retorted. Deadlocked, they looked at each other and tried not to let their eyes smile. "You're all over your cold, I see," said Mary V meaningly.
Perhaps it was the universal recognition of the universal danger that prevented an outbreak, but the morning after found both parties charging fraud, claiming victory, and deadlocked like two savage armies in the crisis of actual battle. For a fortnight each went on claiming the victory.
But the Democrats won, which meant that the next Congress would be deadlocked the Senate Whig, and the House Democratic. Under these circumstances Tyler gathered about him a Cabinet to his own liking and planned a forward step in the national policy. At the regular session of Congress a protective tariff law which restored many of the high duties of 1832 was enacted.
In the French trenches the ingenuity of a French engineer provided a system of hot shower baths on the firing line, and from all points along the deadlocked battle front came stories of the remarkable manner in which the troops of all the armies speedily accommodated themselves to unprecedented conditions and maintained a spirit of cheerfulness truly marvelous under the circumstances, especially as there was no cessation of the constant endeavor to gain ground from the enemy and no end to the daily slaughter.
The Three for Orlando had then withdrawn from the Conference had been gradually lengthening their sessions, the discussions were longer and more acrimonious. They were tired out. Only six days before, on April 23rd, the High Council had been hopelessly deadlocked on the Italian question.
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