Word: dither
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...rules for war-contract renegotiation, which have had industry in a dither (TIME, Oct. 5), are modified to permit firm prices for fixed periods, and to limit the open period during which the Government can ask renegotiation...
...escarpments of Alsace-Lorraine, jutting east toward Germany, made her invasion chances vastly superior to those of 1914. The democratic world waited for General Maurice Gamelin to start. Few detected any symbolic menace in the frivolities of Paris, continuing despite blackout and mobilization. The city's latest dither was occasioned by an attempt by the couturier Mainbocher* to bring back the Victorian wasp-waisted corset, as ill-adapted to modern habits as was the French High Command to the blitz technique that Berlin was perfecting over the French horizon...
Three months ago it seemed hopeless. The swanky Berkshire Symphonic Festival, after much hemming and hawing, had called off its annual summer festival in the western Massachusetts hills. Gas rationing and tire conservation made bucolic concerts risky business. But Conductor Koussevitzky was in a dither-partly at the thought of discontinuing the Berkshire Music School, an annex of the festival, where students learn the arts of conducting, playing, composing and operatic technique. He decided to run the Music Center himself, to put on a symphonic festival without the Boston Symphony...
...Washington, "thin sharp remnants of the afternoon's cold wind dither across bleak LaFayette Square directly in front of the White House; tree limbs stick up bare and stark above the scant light of the posted lamps. . . . There is a silent deliberation in the movement of the cars. . . . Hundreds of pedestrians in a steady flow ease past the tall, iron picket fence separating the White House grounds from the avenue. . . . They move along quietly, talking if at all in whispers, subdued whispers. Silence on the avenue, despite the mob of cars, the mass of people, is apparent, deep enough...
...this hithering & thithering threw refiners and consumers into a dither. Most of them wanted to believe WPB-and acted accordingly. Thus some U.S. refiners last week put customers back on an easy-payment basis (31 days instead of hard cash), wired buyers to come and get it. California's giant Spreckels Sugar went a step further, cut prices ten points to 5-35? a lb. to lure customers. Finally OPA told Western beet-sugar outfits to stop shipping sugar east. Unofficial reason: the East has enough...