Word: dithers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crop of seven to eight billion poods (4,213,183,333 to 4,815,066,666 bushels). The wheat is not yet cut and threshed, and there may be a big discrepancy between grain in the fields and grain harvested, for the Russian peasant is currently in the worst dither since the forcible collectivization of the land...
...studio ratters, and ear-cocked terriers dashed excitedly to the chase in countless homes of England. "Lie down," "Find it," "Jump over the poker," went more commands. Rattling food pans and garbage cans, the Montgomerys for a memorable 15 minutes had every listening dog in England in a dither. When a Montgomery Dalmatian greedily chewed up a dog biscuit before the microphone, dog-owners reported widespread mouth watering. When Montgomery fox terriers, Peter and Jock, got to growling, hackles rose the length and breadth of Britain. When Tippler, a tough Corgi, refused to "speak," every obedient canine listener in Albion...
...costs but relief from uncertainty. From a Detroit hotel which feared that elevator boys who serve traveling salesmen were engaged in interstate commerce, to a Texas turkey raiser who wanted to know whether employes who gathered his turkey eggs had to get 25? an hour, employers were in a dither to know whether the law applied to them...
With no fuss, feathers, din or dither, U. S. aviation this week came completely under control of the new Civil Aeronautics Authority. Before that, it had been the concern of an assortment of Federal agencies. One of Washington's most sprawled-out bureaus, CAA took up its quarters partly in the Bureau of Air Commerce, partly in the Bureau of Air Mail, partly in rooms rented over Childs Restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue...
...blower Clem McCarthy's. The loss: his poise. Son of an auctioneer and veterinary dentist, he is vociferous, deft-tongued, sportswise by inheritance, has a record of 244 words a minute. Still warming to his work when Champion Louis had finished his, Ringsider McCarthy was reduced to dithering bewilderment. His most absurd dither: "This is the shortest fight on record wherein a title changed hands...