Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daily routine has been rigorous, unsensational, inelegant. Like every other Briton who can manage it, he has his cup of morning tea, a black Indian blend in bed at about 8 o'clock. When he travels he lives aboard his ten-car train to avoid the fuss and bother of staying with people. By 9:30 he has bathed, dressed, breakfasted and glanced at the morning papers. All the London dailies go to the Palace. When he is in London he then meets one of his two secretaries in his office. The secretary is loaded with papers. Among them...
Minor Statesman Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, gave him shrewd advice. No one had objected to the amendment, so why stir up a fuss? Singh sat back, watched the UNRRA bill−with the Mundt amendment wrapped in-sail through the Senate...
Washrooms are full of fuss and flutter, and the babbling confusion of Marines in undress waiting to take showers, crowding around mirrors to put their hair in curlers and massaging their faces with creams. In the grey dawn they comb out the pin curls, feverishly powder noses, paint on lipstick (which matches the Marine red hat-cord) and dash off to breakfast and their duties...
...Bridgeboro, N.J., Joe was a mild young man who did not smoke, drink or swear. Last week, in describing how a dozen Japs thwarted his efforts to rescue them, Bargebuster Burk, without falling back on strong language, used strong words: "They were squealing and putting up a terrific fuss. There was nothing to do but eradicate them...
Sweet Encyclopedist. Jimmy is probably the hardest-working millionaire extant. He eats little (two raw eggs for breakfast), sleeps little (about five hours), reads widely (keeps an encyclopedia in the bathroom). Jackson and Roth never leave him alone; all three continually fuss over each other's colds, headaches. Jimmy goes to the cemetery every Sunday-in New York, to visit his father's grave; in Holly wood, to decorate his wife...