Word: dither
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...despite the dither. Britain provided enough rich, impressionable old ladies and idealistic young men to keep the movement going. In Hays Mews an office was always open where troubled souls could learn the trick of "two-way radio chats" with...
...prelates flew to Rome to receive the red hat. The air travelers from the U.S.: New York's Francis J. Spellman, Detroit's Edward Mooney, Chicago's Samuel Stritch, 83-year-old John J. Glennon of St. Louis, Bishop Thomas Tien of Tsingtao, China. In a dither of pride, TWA officials billed the flight-three gleaming, four-motored planes, "the most distinguished mass-flight of passengers across the North Atlantic in aviation history...
...Communist parties outside of Russia were in a dither which dampened collaborationist hopes. Jacques Duclos, secretary of the French Communist party, belabored Earl Browder for plumping for collaboration with capitalist democracy. This week the U.S. Communists' National Board abjectly confessed its "opportunist errors," abandoned the "illusion" that wartime collaboration could be continued...
...officially Catholic Brazil, spiritualists are a numerous sect. Last week Brazil's spiritualists had Brazil in a dither...
...Hurley sent ahead no advance notices. As his transport circled Yenan's airport, the hinterland city of 40,000 went into a dither. First to greet the visitor was U.S. Army Observer Colonel David Dean Barrett, an old China hand, who was dressed in a faded, padded blue-cotton greatcoat over his woolen olive drab. General Hurley wore correct two-star uniform, complete with three rows of campaign ribbons, Mexican Aztec Eagle, White Eagle of Yugoslavia, D.S.C. (for gallantry in World War I) and U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Cracked the Colonel: "General, you have...