Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Academy in Colorado Springs were up to their necks in problems of supply. Should the boys wear boxer or jockey-type shorts? Should they have foam rubber or innerspring mattresses, button or clamp suspenders, optional or compulsory washcloths? But of all the problems, none was causing more fuss last week than the design for the new cadet uniform. It all began when Secretary Harold Talbott flew into Denver six weeks ago. found himself in a huddle with Academy Superintendent Lieut. General Hubert Harmon and Commandant of Cadets Colonel R. W. Stillman...
...apiece; there were no takers. Now the book is published, at $20 a copy, in a special edition of 1,000, which is already oversubscribed. Perhaps in the fall the average reader will get a go at it in a cheaper edition. He may well wonder what all the fuss was about...
...doctor take to avoid bringing on emotional upsets in such high-strung patients? Jarvinen's suggestion: physicians should maintain easy, sympathetic attitudes, try to soothe the patient's anxieties. Most important, hospitals should play down the importance of ward rounds. Nurses should not bustle and fuss, sprucing up a patient and remaking his bed, before the doctor comes...
Since arising, he had turned in a maximum amount of work with a minimum of fuss and bother. The U.S. Seventh Fleet reflected the relaxed efficiency of Mel Pride, who, despite a distinguished record, is a stranger to the public...
...trial might prove too much of a strain for her. Nor would the court admit any of the 14 Western correspondents stationed in Belgrade; it was the publication of interviews with Djilas and Dedijer (in the Times of London, the New York Times and TIME) that all the fuss was about (TIME, Jan. 3). For 15 hours five judges listened while the prosecutor argued that Djilas and Dedijer, by flouting party discipline and giving interviews critical of the party and its leaders to foreign newsmen, had helped "certain foreign circles...damage the reputation of our country...and render difficult...