Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since so much fuss was and is being made about registering for the draft [July 28], let's start a new system whereby all men under, say, 45 who feel that a peacetime draft is imperative would go to the post office and give a written commitment to join our military if the Government should deem it necessary. This solution would stop complaints from our 19-and 20-year-olds and would give the older men a chance to prove again their deep devotion to this country...
...couldn't understand what the fuss was," Chandler, who wore neat navy blue shorts, said. "They said my dress was inappropriate because we deal with the public, but mailmen and bus drivers deal with the public, and they wear shorts," he added...
History will make a big fuss over Being There, because it was Sellers' last--and perhaps best--film. But for him, it was simply the closest he could come to perfection, to playing the self he didn't think existed. Chauncey Gardiner was just a man who loved a gadget...
...HUNDRED YEARS ago today in Tuscumbia, Alabama, "more of a village than a town," Helen Keller was born. The neighbors remembered her as a lively infant carried about the house on her mother's hip, raising a fuss like most children...
...fuss over writing skill means one thing at least: students will write more. And that fact alone is significant, whatever the quality of instruction and the classroom method. Writing experts frequently quote an apt Latin proverb: scribendo disces scribere. It means that by writing one learns to write...