Word: fussbudget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only solution to the affronts handed the citizen by manufacturers, service industries, government bodies-and, yes, neighbors-is for more Americans to complain more loudly. One complainer can easily be dismissed as a crank or a fussbudget, but the power of the complaint grows mightily with numbers. The burgeoning consumer organizations have discovered that millions of Americans want desperately to complain, but have kept silent out of either fear of rebuff or a sense of futility. The organizations have given the citizen the happy feeling that he has found a sympathetic ear and also relieved him of the awkward burden...
...Missouri, where he led the Tigers to twelve straight winning seasons and six bowl-game appearances. Fastidious to a fault, Devine, 46, has a penchant for washing his whistle in alcohol after every practice. "If you're looking for a word for me," he says, "it's fussbudget. The little things bother me more than the big ones." As for the big season ahead, he says: "I'm not naive enough to say we're going to burn up the league. But we're going to think we can, whether...