Word: skeltering
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...Jesuits, like other factions within the church, are running blindly first in one direction, then the other. It is a helter-skelter rush past the actual problems besieging the human race. What is amazing is the polyglot of practices and beliefs attributed to the strikingly simple philosophy of one man-Jesus...
Jenkins' shot capped a two-minute helter-skelter drama during which the Crimson heisted the ball three times and looked like it was going to go out with an upset bang...
...care. Thus there is room for debate on whether the nation should give such high priority to avoiding tax increases. At best, the battle over Nixon's budget should give Congress the opportunity to conduct a long-overdue comprehensive review of the Government programs that have grown helter-skelter over the decades. Many of those programs richly deserve cutting, but that should be done only after considerable thought and study. Otherwise the danger is great that useful and necessary projects will be dropped along with inefficient and wasteful ones...
There was none of the helter skelter activity in the Hogan campaign that one usually sees on election day. At 7 a.m., when the polls opened in some parts of the district, there were people sitting lazily around the office and no one had a sense of urgency about what they were about...
...Health Organization (WHO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Last week the branch of the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), Paris-based since 1946, disclosed plans to move its headquarters to Geneva by next summer. Soon to come is a helter-skelter maze of smaller programs, ranging from the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), to the International Bureau for Declaration of Death, which identifies victims of civil wars and natural disasters, to the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which now has more member countries (142) than...