pother

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Hardly less of a pother has Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan made by his controversies with colleagues who did not see his cosmic ray theories as he did.

From Time Magazine Archive

The epistolary pother had its genesis on June 13, when Watt and Arens sat together at a Washington banquet.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were signs last week that the pother about U.S. schools was no longer exclusively the jousting ground of editors and educationists.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the other occupants, so far from complaining, seemed equally wrapped up in their own affairs, and oblivious to the pother.

From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)