Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that moment, tubby, quippy Mike Di Salle seemed a changed man. He quarreled with everyone. He submitted a huge budget without giving a hint about how the money could be raised to meet it; he vetoed one whole appropriations package passed by the legislature. He got into a fruitless fuss with Ray Miller, Cleveland's Democratic boss. For a while he said that he would not seek reelection, changed his mind, beat Attorney General Mark McElroy in the primary by a bare 33,000 votes...
...about each other. A baroque schema out of Rubens, which is attractive and dramatic in itself, also happens to be a very fine image for a crowded dance floor. If Visconti has learned by now to combine his talents consistently in this way, the Leopard will be worth the fuss...
...minor expression of displeasure, with only a few wounded and hardly worth making a fuss about, but reports drifting back to the Gabonese capital of Libreville said that at least two of the Gabonese soccer eleven had been slain. To avenge their heroes, Gabonese fans fell upon the Congolese community that has existed there since French colonial days...
...fuss kept up until Kuehn finally called a press conference to reject the backing of the Birch Society "as it exists under Robert Welch," its ex-fudgemaker founder. But, said Kuehn, he would still accept the support of any individual voter, "regardless of what secret society he may belong to." He concluded: "I will not say to honest and dedicated individuals who fear and apparently are trying to combat Communism, that I repudiate them solely because they belong to a controversial organization...
Unlike such muscular reagents as acids and alkalis, an enzyme system does its job with no fuss and at room temperature. And, says Dr. Edward Beckhorn, Wallerstein's director of research, it does nothing but its job; if other delicate compounds are present, it leaves them strictly alone. Most Wallerstein enzymes are made by specially nourished cultures of bacteria or fungi. Today they treat skins in place of dog manure, keep bottled beer from looking cloudy by digesting the haze of protein that forms when it is chilled. But newer uses are constantly developing. Dr. Beckhorn is working...