Word: wavers
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...ways and the old often mix badly. The faith of some recently established congregations in rural Thailand tends to waver if prayers go unanswered. At the Ban Ti Christian Church north of Lamphun, a large blackboard hangs on the wall behind the pulpit. Prayers for rain, a speedy harvest and painless cures for various maladies are recorded every Sunday, then checked off the following week against the results...
Their heroines are two earnest outcasts, victims of the teen-age uglies (Sarah Jessica Parker, Amy Linker), who devote most of their time to unsuccessful assaults on the In crowd. "You know," says the school New Waver admiringly, "I really like you two. You've got no style...
...Monday evening approached, the sequestered jury was on edge: they missed their families and simple pleasures like watching television, which Parker had forbidden. Brown's last ally, Copelin, began to waver. As she explained later: "I was tired. Nobody seemed to think there was any other way. We felt locked in by the law." After she switched to not guilty, Brown held out for another ten minutes. Finally, she threw up her arms. "To hell with it," she shouted. "If you all can't see what's happening here, I can't help...
...improbable idyl into a grim farce. Allie's quirkiness becomes derangement. He mistakes the destruction of Jeronimo for the obliteration of the U.S. and decides that he and his family must hide even deeper in the wilderness and endure greater discomforts. Charlie's loyalty begins to waver as every day brings new evidence that his father is crazy...
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...