Word: falters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Veep's voice sometimes seemed to falter when it came to calling off the names of local candidates. He usually had a list in his hand, and read from it. In California, where Jimmy Roosevelt is running uphill against popular Republican Governor Earl Warren, Barkley acknowledged his "great respect" for Warren and said that he did not intend to attack him. The best he could do for Jimmy was to call attention to his background "and the fact that he was overwhelmingly nominated as the candidate of his party...