Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reached absurdly tempestuous proportions. Moderates have begun to realize that if the oust-Burch campaign gets out of hand, the result might alienate G.O.P. conservatives-perhaps even precipitate a third-party movement. Thus, the moderates were hoping that Burch might be eased out with a minimum of fuss and a minimum of bruised conservative feelings...
Hoover said he had no plans for imminent retirement, chuckled at speculation that his fuss with King might force his leavetaking. Said he: "I intend to remain active because I just don't like the rocking-chair life...
...line made its way through the House area and the Yard, students peered out of their windows to see what all the fuss was about. By the time the lively group reached Lowell Lecture Hall for a rally, they numbered about 200. A spokesman for he Harvard chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society had predicted Monday that the rally would attract "up to 400 people...
Andrade, who is the first to have complained, has roused a legal fuss without precedent in California...
...They have been fighting there for some time. This is no secret." He couldn't understand why Malaysia was getting so excited. "The fighting now in Malaya is on a very small scale compared with the magnitude of the fighting in Sarawak and Sabah. Why, then, all the fuss? Is it because the present 'Malaysian' government feels unable to overcome its own internal troubles...