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tsuris

n. (context US colloquial English) problem or troubles.

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tsuris

n. (Yiddish) aggravating trouble; "the frustrating tsuris he subjected himself to"

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Shyster had been given the job of clearing out Tsuris, a nearby planet of considerable mystery.

But the worst of it is, ships even traveling in the vicinity of Tsuris have been known to vanish, only to appear again millions of miles away with no explanation as to how they got there.

Anyhow, the real crafty advantage of sending a volunteer, is that, if you should not return, as is confidently expected, the military will probably send a fully-fledged expeditionary force to Tsuris, even declare war as they sincerely want to.

Bill learned that the Tsurisians had been living on this planet of Tsuris for much longer than anyone could remember.

There was a theory that, when Tsuris was born out of the fiery explosions of Eeyore, its yellowish-red sun, all of the intelligences which now lived on the planet as Tsurisians were born with it.

This was a small rodent-like creature that lived in the fields and woods of Tsuris and was able to communicate with autonomous computer projections such as Bill.

The Tsuris computer, which was able to extend its power far beyond its biosphere, like a globular creature extending a long ghostly but effective pseudopod, extended its influence and plucked the Scalsian ship out of space and dragged it down to the level of the planet.

The work in itself was valuable, since plants on Tsuris, as everywhere, require their moisture or they are apt to scream in pain, turn brown or black, fold up their petals across their stems and die.

Bill, be a good fellow and tell Splock our science officer about how the Tsuris displacement effect works.

Illyria of the planet Tsuris and I have taken over the body of this lizard in order to help Bill here.

Then stared even closer as he realized that this was the very secret that his own Space Navy had sent him to Tsuris to find out about.

I can train and refurbish your mind, and you can take your place here on the planet Tsuris as a computer oracle.

The Glenn Brothers Catering Service, which maintained a line of automatic pizza parlors all over Tsuris, was quick to respond.

Quintiform computer, which, as you know, governs Tsuris, specifically asked for you.

Bill reached the planet Tsuris, the preliminaries were few and far between.