Word: falter
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These characters all seem to be trapped in an unlucky cocktail party that everyone senses is a dud evening. Their voices whine, wane and falter until the grim last line and title of the play reduces everyone to glum silence...
...puzzler is How the Other Half Loves. Will this comedy, currently playing at the Wilbur Theatre, and destined for Broadway, soar or falter in New York...
...when Michael Caine's hordes first stumble onto the same agricultural treasure-lode, there is no indication that the film will seriously falter. Sharif persuades Caine that wintering in the valley village might prove more beneficial to the soldiers than sacking it. Caine promptly murders two dissenters. The remaining twenty are none too perturbed; after all, Caine's unnamed Captain is a rather tough, cool cookie, and as one soldier remarks, strongman Korsky "was a turd...
...televised interview of January 4, President Nixon was asked what he would do if our "Vietnamized" Saigon allies were to falter in the course of American withdrawal. His reply: "... I am simply not going to borrow trouble by saying I expect them to fail. I don't think they will...
...J.P.L. engineer named Algirdas Avižienis, 38, the computer consists of ten separate units, each designed to perform a specific function (computation, logic, communications, memory and monitoring). More important, some of the units always stand by as spares. Thus, if any of STAR'S working parts should falter, it can quickly mobilize a replacement...