Word: falterer
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Dunster is close behind should the Bunnies falter, with a record of 4-1-0. The one loss was to Leverett, however...
...master hand of Louis de Rochemont is obvious in such touches as market place scenes and the ceric effect of coweled monks sitting, mummy-like in their stalls, singing Gregorian chants. And director Irving Pichel controls the pace, never allowing the action to falter or interfere with the film's message...
...something nobody else wanted. Founded in 1872 by Confederate Brigadier General William J. Palmer, the company prospered in steel and coal as the railroads snaked westward, was bought by the Rockefellers at the turn of the century. But under absentee ownership, C.F. & I. began to falter. Its mines and mills ran down, its labor relations deteriorated. The company became notorious for the famed Ludlow Massacre of 1914, in which 33 men, women and children were shot down by the state militia, most of them C.F. & I.-employed guards. Time and again the Rockefellers tried to sell their old property...
...commission in disillusionment-to marry a rich widow, gain election to the House of Burgesses (he bought vast quantities of ale and rum, as was the custom, to get out the vote), and to live the life of a prosperous but restless country gentleman. But he did not falter, 16 years later, as the fever of rebellion swept the colonies. "The . . . peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood or Inhabited by Slaves," he wrote. "Can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice...
...quietly, the Soviet world put on mourning. The momentous news had come piece by piece over 48 hours, every word carefully prepared and timed to cushion the shock. Everything about it suggested that a fresh, firm hand had taken over the instant Joseph Stalin's had begun to falter...