Word: fuming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Athletics Committee has major problems, but they are problems with ready solutions. By studying this year's ticket abuses to improve the distribution system rather than to fume indignantly, the Committee can benefit from this season's unfortunate disclosures...
...philosophical books (The Message of the Lord's Prayer, The Invisible Encounter). Tractors of any type fascinate him and he currently has three ("they are like pets"). But one hobby takes him far from home. He is wild about volcanoes and will fly thousands of miles to watch one fume and throw lava into the air. When Mexico's famed Paricutin was erupting, Sikorsky traveled twice to the craterside to admire the effect...
...registers ringing in motels, hotels, restaurants, drugstores and movie houses. Mrs. Jessel herself is the proprietor of 13 cabins where patients who need more than one treatment can put up for $35 a month. District doctors acknowledge that some patients may receive "psychological benefit"; beyond that they can only fume at the danger that ill people who need proper medical treatment may be persuaded, by a visit to Susie's, that they do not need...
Governor Herman Talmadge's press conference last week was merely routine -until some one asked the big question: What will Georgia do if the U.S. Supreme Court outlaws segregation in the schools? At that, the governor began to fume. Georgia, said he, might well turn "the public schools over to a private system. It is the only thing we can do ... If we don't do this. I have not got enough national guardsmen and the Federal Government enough troops to prevent strife. Blood will flow in rivers...
...that . . . Pidgin English has become a language in its own right, and no matter how many pious sentiments are expressed in the U.N. or elsewhere, its use and continued spread cannot be curbed." In other words, no matter how much busybody ol man bilog pies longwey (foreigners) fuss and fume, ol man bilong Nugini will go right on making toktok as they please...