Word: falters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's volleyball to answer Do they want to win? Yesterday against the Huskies of UConn the spikers temporarily responded yes with a 3-2 win. But throughout the five-set contest, the Crimson seemed reluctant to give a decisive answer At several crucial points, the spiker seemed to falter and lose momentum, letting UConn regain the advantage Consequently, a match that the Crimson looked strong enough to win in four sets dragged out to five...
...Multiflex continued to falter after Potter's first miscue and following Villanueva's punt on fourth and 10, Brown took over...
...this would catapult him out of office," says a fellow Christian Democrat. "But he is going to make as much trouble as possible in order to undermine the Free Democrats as a long-term political partner." For this reason, nothing would please Strauss more than to see the F.D.P. falter in the Hesse elections...
Before that happened, there had been plenty of reason for spirits to falter. The News lost $12.6 million in 1981, and its owner, the Chicago-based Tribune Co., estimated that losses could more than double in succeeding years. Unwilling to battle that trend, the Tribune Co. put the paper up for sale last Dec. 18. After three fallow months, the company announced that Texas Wheeler-Dealer Joe L. Allbritton was "buyer of last resort." But when Allbritton demanded a wage rollback and a one-third slash in the $190 million payroll, union leaders balked, and the "last resort" disappeared. Everyone...
...Soviet military practice. Their pilots and naval captains are taught to fight strictly by the book and risk being shot by security police if they deviate into independent maneuvers. Half-trained Asian infantrymen, most of whom cannot understand their Russian-speaking officers, march stolidly forward, knowing that if they falter they will be machine-gunned by the KGB. So blindly is the stricture against retreat enforced that even a temporary strategic withdrawal is forbidden, and the Soviet officer who recommends it is dragged out and shot...