Word: dither
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first scene Pirandello's mouthpiece, Laudisi, tosses out a philosophical nugget: You can't know the truth about anyone. The other characters are dubious. The proof follows: Two strangers give lengthy testimony about each other, which aside from being extremely improbably, is contradictory. This throws everyone into a dither, except, of course, Laudisi, who goes around baiting the rest of the east and generally being offensive...
Only a fortnight before, Douglas MacArthur had called on the Communists to meet him on the battlefield to negotiate peace in Korea. His statement had sent Washington, U.N. and Western European diplomats into a dither, and the world rang with demands that he be silenced or recalled...
...enough of a mystery to throw the Federal Communications Commission into a dither. Somewhere in central Ohio an unlicensed radio station was broadcasting with the call letters WKGR. This report was handed to Investigator Edward Adams. Adams hurried into his car, equipped with all the gadgets for locating secret transmitters, and headed for the countryside around Columbus...
Earlier cyclotrons smashed atoms by knocking out of them a few protons or neutrons. Their more powerful successors smash atoms to smithereens, and send protons and neutrons flying every-which-way. Out of the disrupted nuclei come more elusive particles: the mysterious mesons which have atomic scientists in a dither of curiosity...