Word: falterer
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...woman held out her tambourine. An S.A. cap sat on her stringy grey curls; her eyes all pity, piety and purity. Thin shoulders were covered by a ragged shawl and she wore galoshes. Not a pair of eyes passed she didn't peer into, not a pair didn't falter; not a hand didn't change into her tambourine. Christmas spirit went with every "Bless...
Wall Street's bull market has been faltering ever since it hit its 20-year peak on May 3. Last week, the bull did more than falter; it fell. At midweek a wave of selling struck the market just before noon, drove some stocks down as much as six points. Before that day's close, the market got back some of its losses, and it held steady to week's end. But its old, heady vigor seemed to be gone...
Freshman right-hander John Arnold could last only six innings against his former Andover teammates in a 9 to 8 slugfest which the Yard nine lost at Andover yesterday. Arnold seemed strong in the first two innings, but began to falter thereafter, and finally had to be replaced by Pat Groper in the sixth...
...hand tired and Dr. Levi Reynolds took his place, seizing the patient's heart without losing a beat. Twenty-five doctors and nurses watched in tense silence, listened to the husky, artificial breathing and the squishing of the massaged heart. After 20 minutes, Owens' hope began to falter (that is as long as most patients survive in such crises), but he relieved Reynolds and went on squeezing...
...Louise Cottier strikes just the right note for Sam, and as the Union fleet captures New Orleans, Sam seizes her "cruelly close" and declaims in the teeth of Confederate defeat: "Come then, my dear. So long as there remain women like you to sustain our Cause, we can never falter...