Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...International Monetary Fund last week took its first solid step toward providing a stabilized basis for world trade. It fixed the currency values of 32 member nations at existing exchange rates (in terms of U.S. dollars or gold). Notably, this step was taken with no fuss; cutthroat currency manipulations, which many economists had feared as a preliminary, did not happen...
...over the biggest vacancy in his diplomatic corps-the ambassadorship to Britain-Harry Truman made up his mind. The man he picked for the job: conservative, 64-year-old O. (for Oliver) Max Gardner, a safe, uncolorful candidate whom the Senate was likely to confirm with little or no fuss...
...have no fuss with Tuss...
...worst experience yet for the Vice President who never wanted to be President. But last week, in the uneasy calm after the awful fuss, he came out of his corner again. Was he groggy? Not at all. He had a never-touched-me air. Natty as ever in a new, blue, double-breasted suit, he faced the same cynical White House reporters who had cornered him in the Henry Wallace mess. Undaunted, he rushed into the nation's worst domestic mess: the shortage of meat...
...delegation agreed unanimously that little benefit would result from a students congress which chose merely to sound off on all the vexing problems of our times--that is, to become a sort of junior United Nations, with no authority but much fuss and fury. A far more realistic appreach to the tedious process of building peace would be to create an efficient, non-partisan international body which could begin to tear down the barriers, both physical and intellectual, that separate students of the world...