Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italians could not understand a grown man making such a fuss about being baptized; said one Rome theatergoer: "We get that taken care of the first week we're alive." Wrote Rome's independent Il Momento: "This is a prime example of American qualunquismo. . . .* It is naturally acclaimed by a people who like to see on their stage only a depiction of their own small lives." Wrote another: "Who knows but what [Premier] De Gasperi may have got mixed up in the theater and staged this? Like him, it praises all the simple virtues...
...when Federal irregulars killed her family's stock and burned haystacks and barns. She had lived by the plain philosophy which she had passed on to her sons-do your best, be loyal to your friends, never forget your enemies. She saw no reason for "a lot of fuss & feathers...
...that was what happened when trim, 40-year-old Ellen Irene Diggs, Ph.D. in sociology and anthropology at the University of Havana, registered at Rio's new, 2O-story Hotel Serrador. Dr. Diggs went off without fuss to another hotel. But when word of the Hotel Serrador's decision got around, she became quite a figure in the news and editorial pages of an angry Brazilian press. Cried Rio's Democracia: "In a land where race discrimination is not the concern of statesmen or a headache for sociologists ... an incident like this demands an explanation." Said...
...frankly out for the millions. "We're not going to fuss around with highbrow programs. We're primed for a battle with the other networks for mass listenership. It's taken us two years to get in position, and now we're going to move in, fast...
After only a month on the job as Minister of National Defense for all three services, Brooke Claxton last week swung his new broom. Calling in reporters, he laid out his plans to sweep out all fuss & frills from the Army, Navy and Air Force, chop $50 million off the $440 million in this year's defense budget...