Word: ditherings
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...venerable tradition, the fourth leader (i.e., the fourth article) on the London Times editorial page is intended to entertain rather than inform. It usually putters around as far as possible from the news. Last week it had its loyal readers in a dither over what to call a group of cats...
Decision or Dither. "[Some] people fear that their country may be 'Americanised,' and 'entangled in America's international policy, and perhaps used for her particular purpose in the event of another war.' ... I, for one, do not want to see Ireland Americanised, or Anglicised, or Gallicised . . . least of all Russianised...
...want to take that position anyway, do you? Or don't you? ... In a global war between Communism and democracy (or, again, call it Capitalism, if you will), any country that could usefully take sides and does not, will thereby, in fact, take sides. Nobody is free to dither indefinitely...
...first scene Pirandello's mouthpiece, Laudisi, tosses out a philosophical nugget: You can't know the truth about anyone. The other characters are dubious. The proof follows: Two strangers give lengthy testimony about each other, which aside from being extremely improbably, is contradictory. This throws everyone into a dither, except, of course, Laudisi, who goes around baiting the rest of the east and generally being offensive...
Only a fortnight before, Douglas MacArthur had called on the Communists to meet him on the battlefield to negotiate peace in Korea. His statement had sent Washington, U.N. and Western European diplomats into a dither, and the world rang with demands that he be silenced or recalled...