Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...position of mayor doesn't really accord with all the fuss--largely a ceremonial post, the office carries with it the duty to chair city council meetings and sit on the school committee. The school board seat is less important this year than some others, because the Independents already hold a 4-2 edge on the board...
...fuss about David Stockman's loose talk [Nov. 23]? He only expressed what anyone with half a brain has already figured...
...fuss over a game of football? Ever since the big series started in 1875, men have tried to discover the special charm of the late November classic. Bright-eyed moralists, for instance, have gone into a happy glow at the sight of a real clean, healthy (American) sportsmanship. 57,000 fans haven't paid $4,80 and upwards each to see a demonstration of the Golden Rule...
...dory past Little Horse Island, a rocky nodule in the Blekinge cluster 330 miles south of Stockholm, he sighted a 250-ft. Soviet "Whiskey"-class patrol submarine, No. 137, hard aground about 10 yds. offshore. Sturkman rowed on to deliver news of his find, and thus began an international fuss worthy of the 1966 comedy film The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming...
...American interests against Israeli interests. George Will, the Reagan administration's favorite columnist, said in an unusual act of defiance that the defeat suffered by the Jewish lobby signalled a victory for the Saudi lobby, in alignment with American corporate interests. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) noted that the fuss over the so-called undue influence of the Jewish lobby comprised the most insidious form of anti-Semitism--an implicit denial of the right to speak out. While the AWACs sale might have a couple of positive economic effects--improving the balance-of-trade deficit, for example--this newfound capacity...