Word: faltered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educators, clergymen, editors and officeholders, who sometimes falter but mean to lead...
...pleasant Andante he had written himself. The judgment of the critics, as Seymour Raven of the Chicago Tribune summed it up: "Mr. Wolf has analyzed his music and taken a firm interpretative view of much of it. Yet he often fails where one would expect a boy to falter when wearing the shoes of a man...To hear him dwell on trifling dissonances as though they all had vast social significance was evidence that the brightest fellow of 18 had some maturing ahead...
...rushing figures are significant: Brown gained 345 yards to Harvard's 109, and the locals had three drives falter in Brown territory. Engle would frequently have three big tackles in his defensive line-Walters, Hill, and Colo-throw in Chernak and Hodosh, and it was just too much...
This on the unimpeachable word of Henry Lamar, who had watched his men falter through two opening losses and a win over a weak Exeter squad without ever seeming to be working together...
Langdon Clay, who has proved to be the mainstay of the mound staff, will probably face the visitors. Clay stopped New Hampshire with four hits on Wednesday and four and five-hit jobs have been the rule rather than the exception for Clay all season. Should Clay falter. Harper will probably throw Roger Davis, another consistently dependable hurler into the breach...