Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pastor Durham's sermon was dutifully reported by the Los Angeles Times, and his telephone soon began to ring, he said, with "overwhelmingly positive" reactions. He was somewhat surprised at all the fuss. "I guess I am a little naive," he said. "Sex is the most important subject going...
...frequency. In 1962 the new Archbishop of Athens resigned shortly after his election to that primatial office upon being exposed as a homosexual; two years later, Bishop Philippos of Drama was dethroned for adultery with his housemaid. Now a much more widespread scandal has shocked Greece. This time the fuss is not about sex but that other great fascinator: money...
...There is something unattractive about a well-fed middle class viewing the status quo with equanimity and not being able to see what all the fuss is about. The fuss is about unemployment, civil rights, ugly cities and countryside, poor education, and poverty. I for one am delighted that we have a President who knows what the fuss is about...
...camouflaged with old lingerie under the bed. When the horrified insurance company protested, nonagenarian Cosmetics Czarina Helena Rubinstein had the jumble of jewels packed up in manila envelopes and squirreled away under E for emeralds and R for rubies in a locked filing cabinet. No need for all the fuss, though. Three hoods tried to rob her a year before she died last spring, and elfin Helena angrily screamed them out of the bedroom of her Park Avenue triplex. The fabulously ill-kempt collection, amassed over 60 years and often valued at $1,000,000 survived until last week, when...
...resolution came in for some criticism because it gave every windbag south of the Rio Grande an excuse to fan the air. Since it only stated a known fact, though, there was hardly reason for the fuss. Considering the Communist subversion now going on in Peru, Venezuela and Colombia, the warning did not seem out of order. It also served as a sharp reminder that, despite U.S. pleas, the nations of Latin America have not yet put together a permanent body to cope with attempted Communist takeovers. Many of the loudest complainers last week were those who turn tail fastest...