Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the people proved the pundits wrong. The people showed that they were actually dead-serious about the 1944 election; they weren't making much fuss, but they were far from apathetic. All over the U.S. millions of citizens poured out to register. In Ohio, they stood outside their registry boards for as long as two hours in the rain; in Brooklyn, hospital patients had themselves wheeled to their polling places five blocks away...
...across Italy (although he got out in front of it at Naples and innocently rolled into that city ahead of the first combat units). A see-for-myself kind of boss, he now bounces back & forth across the Channel, up & down the map of France, traveling without fuss or feathers, hitching rides rather than put anyone to any trouble. Last week he caught a ride to Lyons in Major General Ralph Royce's private plane and luxuriated in a cushioned seat. Bucket seats in a transport are the cheerful McSherry's usual...
...They die quietly, these American boys-without fuss or complaint, perhaps muttering about 'Mom' just before...
Fiddle, fiddle, fuss and diddle...
Britain's sage Manchester Guardian commented: "The fuss in the U.S. is a warning to everybody that a great many Americans will not be in a rational or reasonable state of mind until the November election is over-if even then. Had an American public figure been credited with unfortunate remarks of the same order about ourselves, his explanation would have been quickly accepted. They order things differently in the U.S. . . . It does make life a trifle difficult, especially in an election year...