Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Look, One Hand. At an exhibition in Caracas last week, Hahn walked down a line of six balls, swinging onehanded and switching from left to right, knocked them 130 yds. or so. He drove 225 yds. off a tee 3 ft. high, poked fun at golfers who fuss about leaves and such around their ball, by covering his ball with a sheet of newspaper and picking it off cleanly. Hooking and slicing madly, Hahn cracked: "To a lot of you, these shots aren't too unusual." Then he boomed a perfect screamer 250 yds. down the middle. "I just...
...Brussels with him last week, waved it triumphantly to the cheering crowds that lined his two-hour parade route from Ndjili Airport into the capital, displayed it shyly before whirring cameras and popping flashbulbs at his official residence, and probably took it to bed with him that night. The fuss over the attaché case was well-warranted. It contained that most powerful of Congolese magic: money, and the promise of more money to come...
...greatest market potential for videotape recorders-the U.S. home-is still untapped. Inexpensive portable video outfits could take much of the fuss out of making home movies. Unlike film, videotape does not have to be sent out for developing or threaded into a projector, can be erased and used repeatedly without deterioration. It can be played back immediately from the videotape recorder onto the nearest TV screen. Videotape recorders can be adjusted to turn on TV sets and record favorite programs while people are away from home, enabling them to play back the programs later. Eventually, videotaped news and sports...
...writes him mash notes; Princeton, Cincinnati and St. John's would all like invitations to his graduation this June. And the pros, who have four years to wait, are already saving up: they figure that Alcindor will start out somewhere around $50,000 a year. Imagine. All that fuss over a 17-year-old who has only grown one inch in the last two years...
Another expression of man's sinfulness is the inability of Schulz's characters to change for the better: fuss-budgety Lucy is destined to grow from "the crabby little girl of today" to "the crabby old woman of tomorrow"; "good ol' wishy-washy" Charlie Brown will be forever friendless, always the losing pitcher in 184-to-O baseball games. Trapped by what Cardinal Newman called "some terrible aboriginal calamity," Schulz's characters never seem able to keep up with the world. As Linus puts it: "How can you do 'new math' problems with...