Word: dither
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...would like to point out that rather than choosing pantsuits in a dither of fashion uncertainty, women are more likely choosing them because they surpass skirts in both comfort and versatility...
Katy's emotional world does not mend appreciably when her son brings home from Harvard an actress with whom he has been sleeping. This free and sexy spirit promptly propositions Jeff, and in his menopausal dither he runs off with her. It is a very short fling. After 25 platonic minutes he is back home, ready for a reconciliation...
...much word-of-mouth stimulation preceded opening night as to make the evening almost anticlimactic. The rumor was that Oh! Calcutta!, appropriately housed in an off-Broadway theater renamed Eden, would be a nude frontier in permissive theater. In an anticipatory dither, sophisticated and not so sophisticated New Yorkers rushed to the box office to make the show's 41 previews sellouts. They verified the rumor. Oh! Calcutta! is the nudest show outside a nudist camp. Though the top price on the scale is $7.50 for an orchestra seat, scalpers have collected $20 and more. On July...
...catch up to quotas toward the end. Pravda cited a Tomsk factory that now turns out some 60 fans a day during the first week of the month, then heats up to 200 or more in the last - with a corresponding drop in quality. In the last-minute dither to meet quotas, workers may lose their extra day altogether by having to work overtime. Even then, especially in heavy industries, the extra effort may be canceled out by gummed-up delivery systems that stand idle on weekends...
...since Olympian Bill Bradley fled Princeton three years ago has the Ivy League been in such a dither. A week from Saturday his University--perennial League champions--clashes with powerful upstart Columbia for the loop lead and national prominence...