Word: faltered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...German officers. In case of war with Japan these 250,000 expect to have the harrowing duty of driving as many as possible of the 2,000,000 miscellaneous "Chinese soldiers" ahead of them against the Japanese and shooting in the back the tens of thousands who will falter...
...shame to those who will falter long before reaching the end of the novel; but lucky are the few in whom its appearance alone may fan to a momentary flame long-smoldering sparks once kindled by the man, Santayana...