Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Charles Marion Russell, the cowboy who exchanged the lariat for the brush (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week the museum was dedicated in Great Falls, and if modest Charlie Russell could have seen it, he would have grumbled and told people they were making too much of a fuss...
...that five other Negroes had followed her on the payroll. Mrs. Harper, 26, a high-school graduate with three years of business-school training, said: "It's a great achievement for Negroes, but I don't think it's anything to talk about too much. Fuss makes trouble, not progress...
...helium," he admits, "can be thought of either as a collection of many helium atoms or as a superposition of elementary wave trains of matter waves." By the same kind of reasoning, a desk, a battleship, or even Dr. Schrödinger himself may be merely a fuss kicked up by conflicting waves...
Hang-lt-Yourself. For do-it-yourself homemakers. the Birge Co. Inc. of Buffalo, oldest U.S. maker of wallpaper, will put on sale this month a plastic-coated paper that can be hung in a jiffy without fuss or mess. Birge's washable Quick Wall Covering is coated with a substance which thickens and becomes adhesive when the paper is soaked in a trough of water for a few seconds. Seams are easier to fit because of electronically cut edges. Price: $1.19 to $1.98 a roll...
...course, is that . . . Pidgin English has become a language in its own right, and no matter how many pious sentiments are expressed in the U.N. or elsewhere, its use and continued spread cannot be curbed." In other words, no matter how much busybody ol man bilog pies longwey (foreigners) fuss and fume, ol man bilong Nugini will go right on making toktok as they please...