Word: waverings
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...year, however, five women received the American Isobel L. Briggs Fellowship, while in 1974 only four did. In sex-limited fellowships, the women generally did better than in 1974, and the men worse. This flux, however, represents no definite trend, and the number of fellowships given out tends to waver somewhat from year to year...
...Lipset, to give in to the "anti-intellectualism" of the new student politics, to compromise or waver in the face of its challenge, is intolerable. Capitulation of any sort--and Lipset suggests that such capitulation did take place after the Bust of University Hall--would strike something of a death blow to the very idea of Harvard...
Ford did not waver from the declarations of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 when he said the United States has accepted a reconvention of the Geneva conference on the Mideast "in principle," but is willing "to explore other forums...
INEXPERIENCED acting and awkward staging account for the rough spots in the production. The English accents pronounced by some of the younger actors waver a bit indecisively before settling on region and dialect. Occasionally failing to pay attention to one another, the players time some of their remarks poorly. And though the audience surrounds the stage on only three sides with the bulk of the spectators in front of the stage, altogether too many of the characters' movements are directed to the back of the set, as if the play were being performed in the round. The actors often manage...
...Inexplicably, eleven hours after the ordeal began the two prisoners released one of the four marshals, later did the same for 14 of the 15 inmates holed up with them (one woman inmate was asked to stay). By Sunday morning both men were exhausted, and their attention began to waver, giving the remaining seven hostages a chance to escape. In a carefully devised scheme that had been prearranged by telephone with authorities outside, the lone woman hostage, Debra Collins, told the two men that she needed a sanitary napkin. Officials sent it in to her with...