Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each transfusion, generally losing about 500 cc at a time. "Some of the most delicate-looking boys go over to the hospital and it doesn't bother them a bit," says white-haired, little Miss Baldwin. Sometimes if a vein is a trifle stubborn the doctors have to "fuss around a bit more," but generally it's well worth the money and the donor's blood should be replaced in 24 hours. Some men, through various shennanigans, manage to put in a transfusion once a month for several months on end, but a student is lucky if he gets...
They are inseparable from books like this, and it is idle for old South America hands to fuss & fret about them. The total picture is accurate enough-allowing for the fact that Gunther was in Latin America last winter and the tempo of changes in the Western Hemisphere is now geared to the tempo of changes in Europe. But for tabloid readability John Gunther can't be beat...
...tape in the Government. And he meant it. Alienists examined him. Draft boards harangued him. Finally he was indicted and sent to jail to await trial for draft-dodging. Nothing could budge him. Said he, still wrathy at the memory of the draft questionnaire that had started the whole fuss: "The tone was overbearing and impertinent. It asked questions I thought the Government had no right...
...herd's a-gatherin' 'round the old corral jest like she allus has. Seems it's purty near the same thing every year-lot o' the old 'uns ain't 'round no more, but a flock o' fresh stock is in, 'rarin' to go and creatin' a pile o' fuss per usual. This hyar piece is aimed at the latter (that's a two-bit word.) Mebbe so some of us old nags can fork you young colts of '45 a little solid horse-sense afore you go throwin' shoes all over the range...
From now on, Thunderbird will turn out a class every five weeks. But the U.S. Army Air Corps loved this fuss & feathers. It was tophole publicity for the Army's flying-cadet training program...