Word: falters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tame turnabout when Congress Party politicians begged him to stay on (TIME, May 12). New Delhi columnist B. G. Verghese felt that Nehru had come close to "tearing off the mask of complacency and compromise that has been the bane of the Congress Party and the country," only to falter at the last minute: "He compromised without any gain. He threw away the opportunity that he himself had created...
Crimson coach Norman Shepard plans to call on Gerry Emmet and Dave Kipp for relief-work, if Brigham should falter. He will probably save Herb Scheiner for Friday's game against Princeton, and Byron Johnson for the Columbia contest on Saturday...
John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio (Prestige). Tenor Saxophonist Coltrane swings his raucous solos like a truncheon in such numbers as Trancing In and Bass Blues, but the honors here go to Pianist Garland, whose lean, light-fingered attack and delicate sense of mood never falter...
...driver, California's Phil Hill, coasted home first. Another factory-entered Ferrari was an easy second. In third place came a perky little Porsche Spyder (1,587 cc.) that had played it cozy all through the race, lying back waiting for the front runners to falter. Index of Performance prize, for the car that came closest to the theoretical limit of its performance, .went to a tiny (748 cc.) OSCA driven by a prudent couple from West Palm Beach named Alejandro and Isabelle de Tomaso...
After surging up a powerful 23% in two years, Canada's gross national product is beginning to falter. G.N.P. for the second quarter of 1957 was just even with the first-quarter rate in dollars (but down a fraction in real terms), and government economists think third-quarter figures will show a further fractional setback. The leveling off of Canada's long-lived boom last week sent jitters from Toronto's Bay Street to Alberta's unseasonably snowbound prairies...