Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...board did not reckon with the students themselves. Last week 590 of the 598 students at Galax High School fired off a petition demanding that the 285 white students from Grayson be admitted -along with the eight Negroes. The kids raised such a fuss that 1,900 grownups signed similar petitions. Protestant ministers called sharply on the board to act "with respect for every human being and regard for the democratic privileges open to all persons." Faced with such a reaction, the school board hustled lawyers off to Baltimore to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals to stay the integration...
...young nurses who propose to remove his drawers. "I'll do it myself if you don't mind.'' They do mind, and with Amazonian zest they pants the poor chap and dump him in the sack. "There now," one of them remarks, "what a fuss-about such a little thing...
...Never Thought." It was the first child kidnaping for ransom in Australia's history, and it raised a big fuss. "Some how we have never thought that it could occur in this country." said New South Wales's Premier Robert Heffron sadly. Whenever the Thornes left their home, carloads of reporters and cameramen tagged along. The family pastor. Anglican Minister Clive Goodwin, who had offered to serve as go-between with the kidnapers, withdrew after two days, explaining that so much publicity made his intermediary's role "no longer possible...
...this fuss about a Roman Catholic President ? We have had an acting Catholic President for some time-Hagerty...
...Agate's words, "to furbish up the old sparkle and avoid substituting a new one, to stick to the operette and to keep the thing French." The solution arrived at for "Albert Marre's production," as the current venture is billed, is to tinker and tamper and mess and fuss and fiddle and diddle and hope for the best. The result not surprisingly, is a galimafree, or, as we say in America, a hash...