Word: falters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost everybody in the decade of America's greatest economic collapse. For the next 40 years bureaus sprang full-blown from the heads of Democrats, as our nation decided that only collectively could it solve the enormous problems of an imperfect society. But that consensus began to falter in the late 1960s, when Americans chose Richard Nixon, and in 1972, when they chose him again, emphatically. Watergate intervened, throwing an election to the Democrats. But then came Proposition 13, and inevitably behind it Ronald Reagan, the Kemp-Roth tax cut, an end to the Environmental Protection Agency, the death...
...must never, never falter in our efforts," Drinan said, noting that the plight of Soviet Jews has worsened recently. He added a breaktrough could come at any time...
...political opprobrium that was heaped upon him and still keep his dignity. He confided to a friend not long ago that being jeered with Mayor Jane Byrne in Chicago, a city that used to revere his brother John, had left an ugly scar. Finding, when he began to falter, that professed "old friends" in the Senate and the nation's statehouses would not even return his phone calls shocked him into the realization of just how lonely it was to be a loser...
...American League pennant in pre-playoff days, with Carl Yastrzemski winning the triple crown. But the Sox falter in the World Series, succumbing to St. Louis...
...Judy," 40, says: "What got to me was that I found I was not getting results." A Bryn Mawr graduate who always wanted to be a teacher in a big city, she successfully taught English for eleven years in a Manhattan high school. Her enthusiasm began to falter three years ago when each of her five high school classes crept above the union maximum of 34 students. Says she: "No English teacher should have five classes. If you're trying to teach kids how to read and write, you simply can't do it-that...