Word: falterer
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With rhetorical flourish, Gomes implied that, like the Holy Roman Empire after Charlemagne’s death, the College may falter next year with Lewis’ departure. Gomes’ concern for the future of the College without its leader—“Harry the First,” as he later called him—is a sentiment expressed by many...
...instead of packing it in, the Crimson closed out the regular season with three straight shutouts. Nevertheless, Harvard still needed all the other bubble teams to falter in their conference tournaments to make the NCAA bracket. One by one, they...
...designed to fit a theory, as the Bush administration learned last week, can falter when key assumptions don't pan out. After months of selling its case, the Administration gave the impression it had devised a Teflon war: quick, easy, relatively bloodless. War boosters predicted that Iraq's leadership would snap, Iraqi forces would surrender, Iraqi citizens would welcome American soldiers with open arms. Now that the first week's fighting has sometimes failed to match those expectations, some experts are asserting that the U.S. was not prepared for some of the possible difficulties...
Harvard faces Yale and Princeton on Feb. 22 with a shot at the Ivy League title. For the women to win, Columbia needs to lose, while Penn must falter for the men to take the title...
...similar to the French model of dual leaders: a President and a Prime Minister. That system works when the two office holders are of a similar mind, as Chirac is with Jean-Pierre Raffarin. But when they're not, as last year's French elections showed, popular support can falter. And that's the last thing an already unloved and ill-understood E.U. can afford