Word: fussed
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Hoover said he had no plans for imminent retirement, chuckled at speculation that his fuss with King might force his leavetaking. Said he: "I intend to remain active because I just don't like the rocking-chair life...
...line made its way through the House area and the Yard, students peered out of their windows to see what all the fuss was about. By the time the lively group reached Lowell Lecture Hall for a rally, they numbered about 200. A spokesman for he Harvard chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society had predicted Monday that the rally would attract "up to 400 people...
Andrade, who is the first to have complained, has roused a legal fuss without precedent in California...
...They have been fighting there for some time. This is no secret." He couldn't understand why Malaysia was getting so excited. "The fighting now in Malaya is on a very small scale compared with the magnitude of the fighting in Sarawak and Sabah. Why, then, all the fuss? Is it because the present 'Malaysian' government feels unable to overcome its own internal troubles...
...funny? In spite of the current Harlem rioting, Warren Miller, one of the best satirists (Looking for the General) writing in the U.S., has brought the joke off. In this novel about Harlem's first year as a nation, Miller mocks blacks, whites, and the whole racial fuss; yet beneath the hilarity is a clear warning: "Laugh at your peril. It could happen." Writing such a seriocomic novel is a feat of literary acrobatics, but Miller does not lose his balance...