Word: dither
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...attack, bombed new U.S. airfields on Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas. But this preventive did not prevent another scare: three days later the U.S. reconnaissance planes were back over Tokyo. The Japs, who had been panicked by Jimmy Doolittle's token raid in 1942, were in a dither again, even before the first B-29 raid on Tokyo had been staged...
...Washington, the Latin American diplomats were in a dither. Some were reluctant to sit in dangerous judgment on Argentina. Others welcomed the conference, now that Argentina had asked for it. Said one pro-U.S. diplomat: "We are divided. Some are cursing the Argentines' mothers, others their fathers." Said another: "This is a beautiful chance to spank the Argentines on their rear ends where they keep their brains.'' Said a third: "Now the party begins. We shall have bullfights...
This startling association of terms raised a dither. Said Minister of State Palmiro Togliatti, boss of Italy's well-knit Communist Party: "I do not know what the Catholic Communist Party is. I will have to find out." Even if Voce d'Operaia turned out to be short-lived, it was a testimonial to the growing popularity of Russia and Communism among Italians...
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...Stevens is running. Last week the Stevens tradition marched on: the U.S. Army Air Forces, which bought the huge hotel (world's largest) as a training school only six months ago, now reversed itself and put it up for sale. Chicago innkeepers forthwith went into a deep dither over the "economic disaster' they would suffer if the Stevens came back into competition. Plain citizens went into a dither over what seemed to be Army stupidity, grade...