Word: ado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the inscrutable foe sat in the golden seat. The offensive was still in his hand. He gave a fine exhibition of hiding it by much ado over a wide area. His planes roared as far east as the new U.S. base on New Caledonia, were routed by fighters. His bombers whammed alternately at Port Moresby and north Australian ports. U.S. and Australian pilots whacked right back, destroying the Jap's planes wholesale, as many as 30 at one clip...
Saturday. Official Soviet spokesman says, this is "much ado about nothing," blames "the big rumpus" in the U.S. on pro-Germans. The British announce their Ambassador has urged Stalin to suppress atheistic propaganda...
Saks Fifth Avenue (head designer, Sophie): much ado over Sophie's "plastic seaming," and adaptation of Alix and Vionnet's tiny seams and gores which give a gown a poured-on look; a fitted hiplength, fur-edged jacket after Vermeer; men's tie silk for formal dinner gowns; men's sleeve lining for suit blouses...
...succeed Dr. Leigh, the trustees elected without ado a member of Bennington's faculty, Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, 42, economist and labor mediator. Dr. Leigh will join the staff of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton...
...more outspoken in denouncing Byberry than Superintendent Woolley. Said he: "When I came here Byberry was a medieval pest house. It's now the equal of an 18th-Century insane asylum. It's a disgrace to any community or government which calls itself civilized." Without more ado, he told the world what was wrong with his Bedlam-the most famous of all 18th-Century asylums, which London regarded as a sort of zoo and visited for amusement...