Word: dither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These hard-hitting words sent Washington into a dither. Apprehensive OWI Director Elmer Davis reminded Bill Jeffers that his "speech" had not been cleared by OWI. The Rubber Director snorted that he had not made a "speech," then added, "I will speak my mind...
Back to work after a four-day honeymoon went thrice-married Cinemactress Ginger Rogers; out to the newspapers went a promising picture: husband Marine Private John Calvin Briggs in uniform, the bride in a gathered guimpe, a snood, and a dewy dither...
...washtub placed near the kitchen stove. She uses ("supreme test of fortitude") an outhouse, which in winter can be reached only through knee-deep snow. "Bear and deer and wildcat tracks are all in the day's walk, while a stray human bootprint throws us into a dither...
...rules for war-contract renegotiation, which have had industry in a dither (TIME, Oct. 5), are modified to permit firm prices for fixed periods, and to limit the open period during which the Government can ask renegotiation...
...escarpments of Alsace-Lorraine, jutting east toward Germany, made her invasion chances vastly superior to those of 1914. The democratic world waited for General Maurice Gamelin to start. Few detected any symbolic menace in the frivolities of Paris, continuing despite blackout and mobilization. The city's latest dither was occasioned by an attempt by the couturier Mainbocher* to bring back the Victorian wasp-waisted corset, as ill-adapted to modern habits as was the French High Command to the blitz technique that Berlin was perfecting over the French horizon...