Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles and Maryland). Capricorn may ring up the money too. especially since Grove Press this time will give no financial support to bookstores prosecuted for violating obscenity codes. In the long run, though, the only question likely to be raised about both books is "What is all the fuss about?" As a pornographer, Miller has been surpassed. As a critic of America, he is a gadfly with delusions of grandeur, an ineffectual rebel who can never make up his mind whether to stick out his tongue or take to the barricades...
...once the cheapest and the best. The organization is extrovert, outgoing and inquisitive." Male Superiority. Quite the opposite is j the female corporation. "Its factory buildings are prettily sited and smartly kept with pastel shades in the paintwork and flower beds near the gate. There can be too much fuss over details, an insistence on exact procedure and an overemphasis on the appearance (as opposed to the reality) of competence. In general, the female trend is toward economy and financial caution. Faced with a recession, the female corporation hastens to curtail expenditure and reduce the dividend." Recognizing the difference, says...
...French is even better than his Russian; he has studied it since childhood) and a slight acquaintance with De Gaulle (they met during Bohlen's 1949-51 stint as second man in the Paris embassy). This time his appointment is expected to clear the Senate with no fuss...
...week, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany announced that labor would soon start campaigning actively for a 35-hour week. He realized, he said, that it would not come right away, but he figured that labor could get the short week eventually "if we start a drive and make enough fuss." Or perhaps talking of labor's future was better than talking about labor's present. With unemployment high (5.3%) and union membership waning, labor has been having its troubles at the bargaining table lately. The workingman's wages-like the businessman's prices and profits...
...votes, more than the combined total won by Alford, McMath and three other also-rans. The one place where his opposition beat him was Pulaski County, home of Little Rock (where 42 Negro students went peaceably to integrated schools last term, five years after all the fuss Faubus made). In Little Rock, Faubus got only 40% of the vote...