Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then learned that Brigitte's favorite profession is one of the world's oldest: selling antiques. Next day BB called a press conference, dismissed the Paris-Jour interview as "nonsense." Said she: "I can't even make a joke without everyone's making a big fuss over it. People should know that I won't stop making films until I'm an old woman...
...quarter of the university faculty (112 professors) signed a petition supporting Lawson. When he was arrested for conspiracy to restrain trade and commerce, the divinity-school faculty chipped in $500 for bail. The faculty stirred such a fuss that Dean Nelson set about readmitting Lawson. But last week Chancellor Branscomb vetoed the idea, and Nelson quit...
...looking for a man to succeed the late Lord Halifax, who had been chancellor since 1933 and had won the hearts of town and gown alike by keeping a noisome gasworks out of the city, it let it be known that the affair would be handled, as usual, without fuss...
...died in 1921, he never forgot his humiliation. Nor did his second son, Dickie, who was a 14-year-old naval cadet at the time of his father's fall, and vowed to be First Sea Lord one day himself. Around him centers most of the fuss...
...Free." Such bathetic flights aside, it was plain that the Wayside Chapel was not the best possible place for Paar to fight for the Bill of Rights. It was equally plain that NBC had raised a fuss - perhaps in a deliberate attempt to get freewheeling, free-talking Paar into line - over a story far milder than many other things heard on previous Paar shows or elsewhere on TV. But NBC was in no mood to lose a topnotch performer - and moneymaker. All week long newspaper re porters haunted Paar's suburban home in Bronxville, recording every sob and sigh...