Word: skeltering
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...Faces, Old Roles. Amidst this latest fracas in City Hall and the troubles of its latest mayor, the city of helter-skelter hills, hodgepodge houses, crawling cable cars, fogs and fish smells goes about its play and business, cynical, tolerant and urbane...
...reason for the complexity lies in the empire's swift, turbulent, helter-skelter growth. Founder Lever (Cofounder and brother James Darcy Lever reared early) couldn't resist buying up plants, setting up subsidiaries wherever he went (he circled the earth five times...
...Army has trained more than 2,000 officers (including some Navy men) for the occupation; the Navy has trained 1,100. On top priorities they jammed the transcontinental and transpacific airlines, rushing helter-skelter to a job they had not expected to take on for months...
...clay perfection. Augmenting a keen sense of touch with the memories of his earlier, visual studies, he continued almost to the last of his 83 years to fashion his distinctively animated dancers and horses. He worked in semisecrecy, in perishable wax and clay, left the figures scattered helter-skelter in his Paris studio...
Constitutional changes already drafted at Algiers are enough to give postwar France a new political façade. Woman suffrage, long sought, would be granted. Prewar France's helter-skelter system of party representation in the Chamber of Deputies would be revised, with elections on a proportional basis. And the position of the Premier and his Cabinet would be strengthened; no longer would Premiers of France be hired & fired like casual help in a Christmas-week rush. All this sounded like the kind of democracy which Charles de Gaulle might gladly head...