Word: dither
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...Those who attend Presidential press conferences know May Craig as the small, pert woman who always gets to the front row, always asks deft, roundabout questions in a far-from-timid voice. When President Roosevelt's reticence in disclosing his Third Term plans had the U.S. in a dither, May noticed that some of his naval prints had been removed from the conference-room walls. Instead of asking the direct Third...
After 75 years disturbedonly by babies crying for it, Fletcher's Castoria (soothing, laxative) was last week in the biggest dither in the drug trade. A mysterious emetic had cropped up in some of the medicine and nauseated a few takers. The preparation's makers, the Centaur Co., a division of Sterling Drug, Inc., temporarily withdrew Castoria from the market...
While the "shore patrol boys" were working themselves into a dither over the situation. I arrived at a marvelous but simple conclusion--why not turn the Common into one big victory garden? This would certainly help the food situation in Boston and it would also remedy the aforementioned condition. But immediately the objection would be raised that it would only make it harder for the "shore patrol boys" to find people between the corn stalks or the cabbages. However, it would be necessary to water the garden at some time, and the solution might be to water it all night...
...House got into one of its periodic anti-labor huffs last week. In a dither of debate and determination, by a vote of 270-to-107, it passed the Hobbs bill to end labor racketeering. Authored by Alabama's drawling, union-hating Representative Sam Hobbs, the bill would make criminal such tricks as stopping out-of-state trucks, forcing the trucker to hire a local union driver or pay his day's wages...
...Thomas' reputation with the baton increased, his finances became more confused than ever. In the early 'aos, in a complete economic dither, he gave up music altogether, concentrated for four years on balancing his books. By 1927 he had decided to take a fling at the U.S. He left London in one of his monumental (and dramatically effective) huffs. Said he: "England is finished, not only musically, but every other way. The only thing for anybody to do is to give up and go to America. After a few months' experience as a guest, I will stay...