Word: flustering
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...Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert and Kansas Representative J. Floyd Breeding was a time of relaxed small talk. The President advised the two officers to head south for a vacation. "You had lipstick all over you," he told McKone, remembering the captain's airport reception. But nothing could fluster the man who had stood up to seven months of solitary confinement. "I don't think either one of us has anything to complain about one bit," said McKone...
Nixon does not fluster quite that easily, although his performance Monday night may leave some doubts in that regard, but he gave Kennedy the same kind of opening that Hatfield gave Ziffren, and Kennedy did not respond. It must be assumed that Kennedy passed up this and other opportunities by choice and not by incapacity...
...President Henry Chauncey of the Educational Testing Service (a C.E.E.B. offshoot), objective tests still seem the only solution for college applicants. Writing in the current Atlantic, he argues that objective tests are more accurate. An essay may be written badly by a good student in a state of fluster, or graded in a dozen ways by as many readers. As a one-shot gauge of college eligibility, says Chauncey, the essay is unfair and undependable...
Cattle breeders are in a fluster about dwarf calves, which are being born in ever-increasing numbers in the U.S. and Canada, and cattle experts are building up herds of dwarfs for study. Last week Professor E. W. Stringam of the University, of Manitoba was tenderly nursing a bull calf which he and assistants had delivered by Caesarean section from a dwarf cow. The calf, sired by a normal young bull, is normal in proportions. It will outweigh its mother in three months, but it probably carries the taint of hereditary dwarfism...
...sets out to sea. First off, the crew must "scoop" for "chum," i.e., make a haul for anchovetas, to be used for bait. When at last the net makes a full purse, the ship heads for fishing grounds. A few days later, the porpoise shoal and the water birds fluster wildly overhead-the signs of tuna below...