Word: dither
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...course down the shaky sidewalk of Southeast Asia. In its uncertainty, it makes a policy of staring haughtily at friendly nods of recognition. Last week a U.S. offer of a mere $8,000,000 worth of technical and economic aid was enough to send the Indonesian parliament into a dither of protests that might yet bring the government tumbling down, cradle...
Like any full-time heavyweight thinker, British Philosopher Bertrand Arthur William Russell juggles many kinds of ideas, some sound, and some mere sound. Sifting them apart has kept his critics in a dither for half a century, and may furrow posterity's brow even longer. The Socialist earl, now 79, has taken all knowledge for his sphere and kicked it around like a soccer ball...
...play with only two characters that slices up 30-odd years of marriage under the same roof into six period-costumed, eminently conjugal little playlets. There is the embarrassment of the wedding night, the excitement over the first baby, the crisis over the other woman, the husband in a dither about their teen-age son, the wife in the dumps after their daughter's wedding, the sale of the house and moving away...
...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...