waver

Bernard DeVoto once tried to buck up his friend Catherine Drinker Bowen, who was wavering between a career in history and one in music.

"I've wavered a little bit from the pop sound myself, so to come back to it with the people who are basically owning that genre at the minute was an honour," he said.

With Russia still at war in Ukraine and the White House wavering on how far it will go to help Kyiv, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has pledged to ramp up military spending.

With Russia still at war in Ukraine and the White House wavering on how far it will go to help Kyiv, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has pledged to ramp up military spending.

I grin and look out the window—but my smile wavers as I regard my parents’ navy-bricked town house.