Word: dither
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...across the Dominion, local officials were in a dither of preparation and expectation. As the fuss and festivity of the royal tour got underway, the Times of London struck the proud note of empire: "Wherever [Elizabeth] goes, she represents the future of the British Commonwealth, and how much of that future may belong to Canada, it would be difficult to overestimate...
...dither in the London Times over collective nouns for animals [TIME, June 4]: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 14th-Century romance Sir Nigel speaks of a cete of badgers, a singular of boars, a sounder of swine (when hunted), a nye of pheasants, a badling of ducks, a fall of woodcock, a wisp of snipe...
...venerable tradition, the fourth leader (i.e., the fourth article) on the London Times editorial page is intended to entertain rather than inform. It usually putters around as far as possible from the news. Last week it had its loyal readers in a dither over what to call a group of cats...
Decision or Dither. "[Some] people fear that their country may be 'Americanised,' and 'entangled in America's international policy, and perhaps used for her particular purpose in the event of another war.' ... I, for one, do not want to see Ireland Americanised, or Anglicised, or Gallicised . . . least of all Russianised...
...want to take that position anyway, do you? Or don't you? ... In a global war between Communism and democracy (or, again, call it Capitalism, if you will), any country that could usefully take sides and does not, will thereby, in fact, take sides. Nobody is free to dither indefinitely...