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- Dictionarystand·off/ˈstandˌôf/
noun
- 1. a stalemate or deadlock between two equally matched opponents in a dispute or conflict: "the 16-day-old standoff was no closer to being resolved"
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17 hours ago · The Ruby Ridge standoff and the Waco siege were cited by Timothy McVeigh as the main reasons for his and Terry Nichols's plan to execute the Oklahoma City bombing exactly two years later, on April 19, 1995, as well as the modern-day American militia movement.
17 hours ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
17 hours ago · The following is a list of episodes from the American television series Walker, Texas Ranger.A total of 203 episodes aired from April 21, 1993, to May 19, 2001. Although some sources identify the first four episodes aired at the end of the 1992–1993 television season, as the first season (making nine seasons in the series overall), those episodes are included in the Season 1 (1993–94) DVD ...
