Word: waverings
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...uninterrupted victories to live up to and went right out in the first inning to put the game on ice. After that if there were any signs of cracking they must all be chalked up to the Lampoon's account. The CRIMSON held its own with never a waver...
...said quietly, "Fellows, England expects every man to do his duty," it were superfluity to add a jot. Six thousand throats have bled themselves white cheering for the team so far this season. Twelve thousand feet have stamped in unison whenever an opposing pitcher showed the slightest tendency to waver. Harvard wants no flagging of this spirit...
...alumnus was able to get his precious pasteboard, he was sport enough to be a good loser when necessary. But now that there has been added to this a financial question, he may feel that his sporting chance has been supplanted by a plutocratic rule. His loyalty will not waver, but he may feel hurt that his chance to cheer for, fight for, and support his team has been put on a money premium, and that his fair alma mater has taken to playing favorites. This is especially true of the younger alumni to whom the dollar seems more than...
...keep up for 15 rounds. Goodrich waited his chance. Kansas was standing off to loop a left to the head, when he sent across his sock. Wham! With all the leverage of his springy body behind it, his right fist encountered the other's jaw. Rocky did not waver. Oof! Again the big right-hand sock. Rocky came tearing in. ... He was flogging Goodrich's red ribs when the gong clanged for the end of the 15th round and the referee stepped forward to indicate that he-Rocky ("Bleeding") Kansas-was the world's new lightweight champion...
...Harvard team ever made a more stubborn fight than this one. . . . The driving force of the Yale team required Harvard resistance of the stiffest sort. Not once did Harvard waver in the pinches."--R. T. Fisher...