pother

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The pother at Yale had begun the week before, when a fine fall of late winter snow had coincided with a fettlesome rise of early spring sap.

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

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Since Army and Navy make a great pother about secrecy in the design and construction of planes, questions had to be asked in Washington.

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With lofty disdain, Wall Street traders set their sights far beyond last week's pother of strikes, wage demands, price-control squabbles and reconversion growing pains.

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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