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Word: waverers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their control begins to waver; Montana's becomes focused. Such drives are his trademark. In three more plays he drove the 49ers to the 13 only to miss an unattended receiver in the end zone. "It kind of shook me up a bit," he would say later, "because there it was-he was open. How many times is it going to be there for you?" Even that flicker of concern did not show, not to the crowd, not to his teammates. Montana sent Lenvil Elliott around left end to the six. Time out. Third and three, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Montana: Perfect Timing, Joe: | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...subtle sequence of tones may be, in a form that once looked flat and light brown; how many colors may be contained, as dusty hints and afterimages of themselves, in what seemed to be a sequence of gray patches. If the straight side of a bottle seems to waver, it only does so to remind us how mutable and hard to fix the act of seeing really is. And if the shapes look simple, their simplicity is extremely deceptive; one recognizes in it the distillation of an intensely pure sensibility, under whose gaze the size of the painting, the silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master of Unfussed Clarity | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...President's tax plan will make 1982 "the year we'll see what American business can do. You'll be in the race of your lives," he promised, more bullish on America than ever. As for the Democrats, he said, "they seem to waffle and waver. Sometimes I think they're trying to delay in order not to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marine Has Landed | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...Pope has apparently been shot. We don't know what his condition is. It was just at the beginning of the general audience in St. Peter's Square ... The Pope was seen to waver, to fall back into the arms of his secretary after four, or five, or six shots were fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Pope's Been Shot! | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...many of his countrymen even if they respect his intellect-and, at times, his courage. Last week, as 'he stepped from a jet in Ajaccio, Corsica a bomb blast ripped through the airport terminal. An emotional Giscard denounced the attack as "cowardly" and vowed not to waver from his schedule. Such rare passionate moments aside, however, even one of the President's most trusted aides admits that "he has not won the hearts of Frenchmen. Giscard is from the Auvergne region, where the people are known for holding in their emotions " Indeed, the President rarely seems genuinely comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Giscard Runs Scared | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

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