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Word: fussbudget (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good ole Charlie Brown and his friends speak the sophisticated baby babble of the age-popularized psychology. Charlie (Gary Burghoff) has a way of putting himself down before the world does, a sly self-pitying form of oneupmanship. His shrew is Lucy (Reva Rose)-crabby and domineering; another is fussbudget Patty (Karen Johnson). His soul mate is Snoopy (Bill Hinnant), the dog who lies atop the doghouse that Charlie is always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Good Grief | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

...which a quarter or half had been consumed at dinner reappeared on the table the next day with its ravages unrepaired." He had a "passion for motoring," and he indulged it "to the last drop of petrol of any visitor's car." He was a hypochondriac and a fussbudget and noticeably thin-skinned where criticism of his work was concerned. But he was also the "greatest talker" she had ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Survivor | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

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