Word: falterer
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...joining me in congratulating them, TIME Managing Editor Jason McManus warned them of the challenges ahead. "Competent or not, ready or not, you will end up in charge," he said. "It is you, in your time, and those like you of your generation, who will make America work. Or falter...
...questions then remain: why did Harvard falter, and what will happen next year? Surely part of the Crimson's problem was just plain bad luck. When you lose that many games by just a few points, you're almost certainly getting more than your share of bad bounces...
That year marked two seasons of contention for Harvard basketball, two years in which the Crimson cagers came close to their first-ever league title only to falter late...
...melancholy moment in the Reagan Administration. The old magic is gone forever, lost not so much to a single shock, the Iran-contra affair, as to the thousand and one arrows that constantly assail leaders, causing them to falter as the wounds accumulate. The Reagan nerve ends, so exquisitely conditioned by the long years of struggling to get to the top, are dulled by the isolation and the sycophancies of ultimate power...
...campaign basement unless the sides and back of his shag are thinned. George Bush ("really great") and Bob Dole ("styled very well") streamlined and sailing smartly into the political winds. Pete du Pont, Al Haig and Don Rumsfeld rightly barbered to take the course should the others falter. Jack Kemp, splendidly styled for football, left in the locker room instead of the White House if he does not have some serious cutting done...