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...Washington, D.C., tourists from Calamine, Ark. and Hurricane, Utah scrambled to the monuments and parks, bought foam-rubber hats and doused them with water to get cool. And Washington's Manger Hamilton Hotel, one of thousands of hotels offering family plans (children free), was caught in a dither when a couple from Kentucky showed up with eleven youngsters...
...Colonial countries, agog at the amount of U.S. food production, do not even imagine that they can compete with the U.S. We have dared challenge the U.S., before whose moneybags all capitalist powers dither and toady. Our program will again clear the way in consciousness of those people who vacillate and have not yet taken up our ideology. I am not speaking of capitalists-it is impossible to re-educate them. The grave is the only cure for hunchbacks. This program is stronger than the H-bomb. If we catch up with the U.S. in per capita production of meat...
...years ago. Today unthroned royalty from other lands are a franc a dozen in the haunts of Paris' international set. The businesslike, democratic sovereigns of northern Europe frequently turn up in town without causing a ripple. But Parisians in all walks of life have been in a dither for weeks over next week's visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Day laborers and priestesses of haute couture, florists and jewelers, architects and restaurateurs, waiters and street sweepers were busily engaged in last-minute titivations (at an estimated cost of 2 billion francs) for the first visit...
Bulloch's biggest coup still has Oklahoma politicians in a dither. In the 1956 election he uncovered a brisk trade in absentee ballots which had given State Senator John Russell a narrow victory over Representative Tom Payne. The outcome: Payne was seated in the state senate while his opponent and several other state officials, including an aide to Democratic Governor Raymond Gary, were charged with conspiracy. Soon after this investigation, Bulloch was warned that disgruntled politicians were out to avenge the vote-fraud exposure...
Jennie Bernstein, a bright-eyed Boston housewife, was in a dither as she popped through the neighbor's back door with little Lennie in her arms. She put him down on the living-room rug, and the two women stood back to watch. What they saw made musical history. With the teetery determination of a puppy bound for breakfast, little Lennie pattered out on all fours into the next room and over to the piano. Seizing a leg of it, he hauled himself erect and planted a pinkie firmly on the nearest key. As the note struck, an expression...