Word: falters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diver didn't seem to have what it takes. Shut Out did. With Jockey Wayne Wright up, the lesser regarded of the Whitney pair was up with the front runners from the drop of the flag. On the home turn, when the pacemaker, With Regards, began to falter, Shut Out shot in front. Then, in the last quarter, standing off the challenges of Alsab and Valdina Orphan, Shut Out saved the day for Mrs. Whitney. Devil Diver finished sixth...
...innings the Varsity played unbeatable ball and not until the seventh chapter of the second Penn clash did it falter. Captain Lou Clay eased up for the first three batters in the Unlucky Seventh, allowing two singles and then a home run to left by Sophomore first baseman Art McQuillen. The Crimson's one-run comeback in the ninth failed to overcome the Quaker sprint...
Nephew of the former French ambassador, and prize protege of Coach Lamar, Bullitt without a falter cleaned up in the trial elimination series for the New England championship and entered the open competition. Defeating three local boys from the Boston area and a sergeant from Fort Devens, he climbed to the finals where he faced Jimmy Sauer, Golden Gloves champ in the 135 pound department who was considered one of the outstanding amateurs of the year...
...Crimson going. At times during the first two touchdown marches of 73 and 72 yards. It appeared that Harlow's beautifully designed attack was about to falter. Each time McNicol came up with a play which caught the Army flatfooted and gained the necessary yardage...
Ickes believes that when a policy has been laid down, it should be followed. When the Administration said: No-more-Business-as-Usual; when the President pledged the U.S. to become the "Arsenal of Democracy" he took it all literally. Then he watched the dinosaur of a defense program falter, swamp itself, stumble from delay to delay, without plan understanding or grim intent. He listened carefully to the defense chiefs delivering excellently-phrased appeals to the U.S. to arouse, make sacrifices, speed up. This looked very good in the rotogravures, but Mr. Ickes then watched the same orators on their...