Word: falters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season. Even the sixth-place Giants have come on so fast that their fans are talking of 1951, when a midsummer spurt shot them all the way to the top. And all the while, on the edge of the pack, ready to drag down the first team to falter, the trailing Pirates and Cubs are giving none of their betters an easy inning...
...solution: a staring match between the contenders, proposed by the ornery town skeptic to keep the town from stampeding in favor of Mr. White. Isolated in a drawn circle, the two stared and glared away for days, without flinching or even growing a whisker. When Mr. White seemed to falter, a little girl rushed into the forbidden circle with a dipper of water and suddenly collapsed in a thunderclap. Who turned away from the staring match to help her? Mr. Black, who thereby lost the match but established more convincing angelic credentials-and helped to show that black and white...
...most recent triumphs have been in league play, to run the team's Ivy mark to 7-6, and a sure fifth place finish. Victory tonight, moreover, would put Harvard in position to tie for fourth place, in case either Columbia or Princeton, both with 7-5 records, should falter against weak opponents tonight. If both lose, and the Crimson wins, a three-way tie for third place would result...
...this is not the only area in which union communications falter to the detriment of their long-range security and their acceptance as a mainstay of our free enterprise economy. At the same time that they repair their relations with their members, unions must do a more consistent job of demonstrating to the public that their goal is to go forward with the total community, and not to win gains at the expense of the community. Nowhere is this task more urgent than in the field of inflation control. Unfortunately, in the minds of many who have been worst...
They made Mrs. Jan Burke's Dedicate the favorite, watched him try to steal the race in the early going, falter and come on again in the last 100 yds. to catch Mrs. E. E. Robbins' Midafternoon by a head. When it was over, even the losers had seen their money's worth-a close and true race that had the first three horses within a yard of a triple dead heat...