balked

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Balked at every turn, I had to resort to pumping the regular baby sitter for details.

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2013

Balked by the Pacific Ocean, Poet Jeffers, unless he were to retrace his father's steps, had only three directions left to go: down, up. in.

From Time Magazine Archive

Balked in earlier attempts to move into Chicago, Hoffa got a foothold in the late 19403 through an alliance with Paul Dorfman, described by the McClellan committee as "a major figure in the Chicago underworld."

From Time Magazine Archive

Balked also was research on Rocky Mountain spotted fever spread by ticks which live on guinea pigs; parrot fever, brain fever, infantile paralysis, whose respective viruses multiply in white mice; tularemia, which requires rabbits.

From Time Magazine Archive

Balked for the second time, the passion of his grief had found another outlet, was transformed into a passion of agonized rage.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley