Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...management. Said he: "The people are not going to stand for having society disintegrated by movements of this kind." He invited John L.'s lawyers and those of the Southern Coal Producers Association, with whom Lewis has stubbornly refused to negotiate, to sit down in his chambers and "fuss in good faith." Nothing came...
...study findings on the spot, remove what they could. They descended like locusts, got in the workmen's way, spent hours and days photographing, sketching, and removing treasures of the past. Said a cigar-chewing truck driver: "I don't understand why these people make such a fuss ... It keeps my truck waiting hours...
Certainly some conductors (and some famous ones) make the strings weep when the composer only intended them to sigh. But if all that is needed is to follow the composer's explicit directions, what's all the fuss about conducting? To the average listener, it might seem that a mechanical metronome would serve as well as a human one. There are other conscientious conductors, just as selflessly anxious as Toscanini to express the composer's intent. Why does Toscanini tower over them...
...delegation promptly recovered the State Department's fumble. It cabled the department and Communist Magil got his passport. (He threatened to make another fuss at Geneva unless another Worker reporter got a passport to cover the Italian election April...
...kudos poured in. The Wrights set up a factory and began to make money. They took a plane to Europe, where kings and queens attended their demonstrations. President Taft received them with fanfare in the White House. Shy, low-spoken men, the Wrights were embarrassed by all this fuss. Once, after enduring several long-winded speakers at a dinner in France, Wilbur rose and remarked: "The most talkative bird in the world is the parrot. But he is a poor flyer...