Word: dither
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted, the public has been thrown into its annual dither by the 1958 automotive barges. This reaction seems particularly inappropriate in view of our current technical and political lag behind the chromeless Russians. It is high time to reappraise ourselves in the light of the world around us, with a little less emphasis on bubble windshields and fins...
...chartering of joint organizations and the Administrative responsibility for them also have the committee in a needless dither. Perhaps its members are forgetting to make a clear distinction between joint organizations which may be formed in the future and existing Harvard activities which decide to extend full status to Radcliffe members...
...Washington, D.C., tourists from Calamine, Ark. and Hurricane, Utah scrambled to the monuments and parks, bought foam-rubber hats and doused them with water to get cool. And Washington's Manger Hamilton Hotel, one of thousands of hotels offering family plans (children free), was caught in a dither when a couple from Kentucky showed up with eleven youngsters...
...Colonial countries, agog at the amount of U.S. food production, do not even imagine that they can compete with the U.S. We have dared challenge the U.S., before whose moneybags all capitalist powers dither and toady. Our program will again clear the way in consciousness of those people who vacillate and have not yet taken up our ideology. I am not speaking of capitalists-it is impossible to re-educate them. The grave is the only cure for hunchbacks. This program is stronger than the H-bomb. If we catch up with the U.S. in per capita production of meat...
...years ago. Today unthroned royalty from other lands are a franc a dozen in the haunts of Paris' international set. The businesslike, democratic sovereigns of northern Europe frequently turn up in town without causing a ripple. But Parisians in all walks of life have been in a dither for weeks over next week's visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Day laborers and priestesses of haute couture, florists and jewelers, architects and restaurateurs, waiters and street sweepers were busily engaged in last-minute titivations (at an estimated cost of 2 billion francs) for the first visit...