Word: falterer
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...past and present, the strain of his relationships with the people he knows now and those he remembers, that produces tension. With his analyst and employer, each aware of the young man's problem and each professionally involved in the prognosis, he can relax. But he begins to falter at the recognition of the curious parallel between his present landlady and her husband, and his childhood family. Yet the final test comes from the woman who loves him and her young daughter; for he is forced to obliterate once and for all the distortions of his past identifications with women...
...main purpose of Home's trip was to lay to rest fears that Britain might welsh on its Berlin commitments. "Our signature is on the treaties," he said. "They must be interpreted with intelligence, but we shall never falter or default on them. Some of the columnists seem to think that unless we go around whistling military tunes to keep our courage up that there is disunity among...
...when the tall, tanned Texan set to work. Looking straight across the welcoming red carpet at Thailand's tough little Premier Sarit Thanarat, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson declared: "We will honor our commitments for the cause of freedom. We will stand by our friends. We will not falter, Mr. Prime Minister. We will not fail...
...Rolls-Royce does not "chug" no matter what the weather may be. It may skip, falter and, on rare and seldom proven occasions, even fail, but chug-never! It glides...
...Fine Young Cannibals (Avon; M-S-M) proves once again that while inspiration may falter, color cameras never get tired. The anthropophagi of the title are four unpleasant young folks from Texas (Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, George Hamilton and Susan Kohner). Poor Boy Wagner loves Poor Girl Wood -carelessly, as it turns out. Spurning his offer of honorable wedlock, she boards an eastbound train, meets suave Yaleman Hamilton and, smelling riches, lets herself be plied with strong drink from his portable pigskin bar. He has her way with her, so to speak. Later, learning that Natalie is pregnant...