Word: dither
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bulloch's biggest coup still has Oklahoma politicians in a dither. In the 1956 election he uncovered a brisk trade in absentee ballots which had given State Senator John Russell a narrow victory over Representative Tom Payne. The outcome: Payne was seated in the state senate while his opponent and several other state officials, including an aide to Democratic Governor Raymond Gary, were charged with conspiracy. Soon after this investigation, Bulloch was warned that disgruntled politicians were out to avenge the vote-fraud exposure...
Jennie Bernstein, a bright-eyed Boston housewife, was in a dither as she popped through the neighbor's back door with little Lennie in her arms. She put him down on the living-room rug, and the two women stood back to watch. What they saw made musical history. With the teetery determination of a puppy bound for breakfast, little Lennie pattered out on all fours into the next room and over to the piano. Seizing a leg of it, he hauled himself erect and planted a pinkie firmly on the nearest key. As the note struck, an expression...
...overcrowded, underemployed port on the Baltic Sea whose lusty waterfront population takes its politics with violence and vodka. Last week a cou ple of cops who tried to arrest a slaphappy vodka drinker touched off a political riot that had Wladyslaw Gomulka's new government in a nervous dither...
...Radio Workshop (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The Hither and Thither of Danny Dither, a children's morality opera for grownups...
...irrefragably feminine" mistress, TV Star Flaire Daire. It is a "big 1960" idea: voters love babies. After a bit of coaxing, Mrs. Adams agrees to spill some pseudo pregnancy news over Flaire's national TV hookup.* Unfortunately, a makeup artist named Jacques Mario Jean Petrovich goes into a dither over Mrs. Adams' "firm ample tummy [which] was shaped like the underside of a round 15-inch skillet." The pair are about to start cooking with gas when Blade starts playing Bogart with Jacques's face ("Slap...