Word: dither
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told the stirring story of a 41-year-old doughnut, a book reviewer, a man showing a travel film on Texas. Biggest hit: an obviously talented 17-year-old Korean pianist named Tong II Han, whose fluid performance of Scarlatti and Chopin sent the audience into a dither...
...last week the news was out, and Southern Rhodesia was in a dither about the greatest find of emeralds in Africa since the days of the ancients who used to dig the green gems from "Cleopatra's Mines" near the shores of the Red Sea. To the ancients, emeralds were a specific against epilepsy and dysentery, an aid in childbirth, eye troubles and the preservation of chastity. To Contat and Oosthuizen, the emeralds at Belingwe may represent a fortune in excess of $20 million. They have already turned down an offer of $2,800,000 for a quarter share...
...prince from Norfolk to Washington, where he was met at the airport by a full turnout from the Spanish embassy, headed by Royalist Ambassador Joseé Maria de Areilza. Also on hand was Newshen Win-zola McLendon of the Washington Post and Times Herald, who was all in a dither as she asked Juan Carlos what he thought of American girls. "Oh, very pretty," replied the prince gallantly. Winzola gushed later that his blue-green eyes had not only a twinkle, but "the LONGEST, CURLIEST lashes...
...Moslem and Druse dignitaries, and members of the diplomatic corps (who kept their hats on like their Israeli hosts). There were even some English ladies in picture hats-guests of Benefactor Wolf-son-bobbing like exotic flowers in the wilderness of beards and black hats, and they caused a dither of commotion among the ushers when they refused to be seated in isolation at the back of the hall, insisted on accompanying their menfolk...
DeGuglielmo stated that a deadlock had arisen and that the C.C.A. had not been able to come up with a strong contender. "I do not want to keep the citizens of Cambridge in a dither by being party to any such deadlock," he said. He added that Cambridge had been ridiculed for its lengthy mayorality elections...