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...spectators saw Tenley falter slightly on a double axle, but it was not enough to mar her performance. She limped badly coming off the ice after her four minute program, having turned her injured right ankle while skating...
...five-all in the crucial fifth set, Trabert and Seixas thrice came within a stroke of breaking Head's service. But the Aussies did not falter. The end came when Seixas, serving, put two in the net. His next serve was successfully returned by Head's erratic backhand. Hartwig's backhand volley drove one in the alley; Trabert reached for it, slid to the grass, and the game was over. The match and the Davis Cup were Australia's. Said Australia's balding, jut-jawed Captain Harry Hopman: "We are very much relieved...
Should MacKenzie falter in the late innings Allen can send in sophomore Ray Carlson, who has won all seven of his starts this season. Yale's offensive power is not quite up to its pitching but the team boasts three .300 batters...
When the new Argonauts had their travel plans nearly completed, Churchill cabled Roosevelt: "No more let us falter. From Malta to Yalta. Let nobody alter...
...save pilots of jet planes that falter on take-off or are disabled by enemy fire during low-flying missions, the Martin-Baker Aircraft Co., Ltd. of Higher Denham, England, has developed a quick-acting parachute that works even when an airplane is still running on the ground. When the pilot triggers the mechanism, lots of things happen fast. An explosive cartridge blows the canopy off and tosses seat, pilot and all 80 feet in the air. Then an automatically timed gun opens small parachutes that steady the tumbling seat. An instant later, the timing mechanism opens the main parachute...