Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles to Knoxville to enlist in the U. S. Army. Told because he was only 20 that he needed his parent's consent, he hitchhiked home, returned to say: "Mother didn't exactly want me to sign up, but she didn't make much of a fuss. Most every family in our [Fentress] county has had one volunteer. . . ." Then taken by a grinning Army sergeant to Fort McPherson, Ga., Private Elbert Lee Hull was sworn into the Army, explained he had talked things over with Grandfather Louis Hull, but not with Grandfather Louis' distinguished nephew...
Because his appointment as a reservist captain in the Army Specialists Reserve had kicked up such a fuss that it might have "an injurious effect on the selective service program," Elliott Roosevelt last week tried to resign his commission, so that he could go home to Fort Worth to register for the draft. On the grounds that his services were needed and that poor eyesight would disqualify him for fighting or flying, Brigadier General Oliver P. Echols, his commanding officer at Wright Field, refused his resignation...
...first time in peace, men born between Oct. 16, 1904 and Oct. 15, 1919 will have to register for the draft. Most of the 16,500,000 know just what to do (go to their local precinct centre, fill out a simple registration form), will do it with no fuss & fumble. But some fussing & fumbling there is bound to be. To cut confusion to a minimum, last week the Army's Temporary Draft Administrator, Lieut. Colonel Lewis B. Hershey, and his associates tried to answer all puzzlers in advance. Some answers...
...Last week in Buffalo and Atlantic City, citizens who had been asked to serve without pay as registrars put up a fuss. By strict interpretation, for refusing to serve they could be fined up to $10,000, jailed for five years. Actually, they were unnamed but collectively branded as "unworthy of being Americans," threatened with "exposure through publicity...
Last week serious-minded, serious-mannered Quaker delegates opened their business sessions at Cape May with silent periods of meditation, conducted meetings with as little fuss as they do their worship. Exception: a speech by well-loved Frank Aydelotte (who last month left the presidency of Quaker Swarthmore College to become director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N. J.) discussing Clarence Streit's Federal Union. His listeners applauded Dr. Aydelotte so loudly that other Friends, surprised, left round-table discussions upstairs, hurried to see what was the matter...