Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stand in our path, and the lobbyists will swarm around each Congressperson like flies. Therefore the only way we will move ahead is if you, my fellow citizens, will get involved and mobilize a mighty force for change. You will have to lobby and petition and otherwise raise a fuss in order to make up with your numbers what you lack now in power and wealth. Thank you, and let's get moving...
Even by American standards of interest-group celebrity, gay men have loomed large in the nation's consciousness, surfacing at Roseanne's side on prime time television, as superheroes in DC Comics and on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers fuss over showering habits in the barracks. But last week, as they prepared for the largest march on Washington in six years, gay men became the - first put-upon minority in the country to have struggled toward a moment of national definition only to find themselves suddenly redefined. Here they were, about to sit down face to face with the President...
...both sides of the Atlantic, far bigger than most serious compositions ever reach. It is at the top of the classical charts in the U.S. and Britain and, amazingly, has risen as high as No. 6 on the British pop charts as well. "I can't believe the fuss is actually about me," says its astonished creator...
Anne B. Guiney '95 says this year's sophomore class has had a lot to do with the changes. "I think the sophomores are kicking up a fuss," she says...
After all the fuss over possible POWs in Russia and Vietnam, a U.S. Senator just back from Pyongyang says hundreds of American servicemen captured during the Korean War were sent to China and never returned. Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, said, "Every single Korean official we talked to confirmed" that U.S. prisoners of war had been sent to China. "They weren't returned," he said. Beijing has repeatedly denied that China kept any American POWs except for 21 who asked to stay...