pother

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The colonel's statement threw the Pentagon into a pother.

From Time Magazine Archive

For ten years cosmic rays have made a pother in the scientific news.

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As usual, there is a pother about the new-rules and an argument as to how they shall be interpreted.

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Despite all the current pother about the mechanics of painting, there are actually so few ways of putting color on canvas that abstractionists get grey trying to think up new tricks.

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“For the love of Heaven, do not worry me, do not kill me with your pother; this is a matter that concerns—concerns my life.”

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro