Word: falters
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Early this spring, George Stevens' step began to falter. His hair and his heavy beard and mustache had long since grown white. His eyes had never lost their piercing, humorous expression, but he was an old, frail man when they carried him from the Hartford Hotel, after 29 years' residence, and took him to the hospital. Last month he died...
...395th shot, the N. R. A. Garand began to falter. During the final rounds it broke down, so hopelessly fouled by carbon that it could not be used until it was dismantled, cleaned, lubricated, reassembled-a complicated job for a soldier under fire...
...accustomed to the kind of poetry written in what she calls "a tradition of male monologue." Laura Riding's poems are no monologues: they are direct communications of personal knowledge from herself to the reader. These poems make such unfaltering sense that most readers' attention will falter before them...
When the two teams last met February 19 at the Indoor Athletic Building, a second half rally successfully subdued the Columbia five 86-31. On a foreign floor and immediately after the tough loss to the Quakers, the Crimson may falter tonight, but because of its past record is a slight favorite...
...Vividly last week he must have recalled that at that lengthy service Archbishop Temple's hands trembled so that he nearly dropped St. Edward's crown, finally clapped it on King Edward's head hindside foremost. Cosmo Gordon Lang did not tremble, his voice did not falter once. From the depths of his heart he was able to give the Coronation Benediction, the noblest words in the entire service...