Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the newspapers spread Bally's story, Farmer Kolkman could not understand the fuss. "Hendrik never asked for a raise," he said. "He had his Sunday suit, and every morning we gave him an egg. He didn't want any more." As for Bally himself, now that he had glasses of his own, he had taken a look at newspapers again, and could not find much of interest in them. "It's like the old days," he said. "They still quarrel...
...nicknames began with Supermac, coined by Cartoonist Vicky. Macmillan has since become known in times of budget cutting as Mac the Knife, during the trouble in Cyprus as Macblunder, and during a highway fuss as Macadam. For the great fur cap he wore to Moscow and odd gear he favors on other occasions, he also became Macmilliner...
...minutes over the still desert to warn the unwary. Then privileged watchers inside the fence feel the ground tremble under their feet, see a long, white, incredibly brilliant flame jut horizontally out of the hillside. The show lasts for about one minute and shuts off abruptly. There is no fuss, no dramatic countdown, seldom any delay...
...newsmen only a brief audience after his regular press conference, insists that they submit their questions in advance and explodes if they try to ring in an ad-libbed query. The complaisant Capitol press corps, long used to the ways of Washington procedure, accepts all these arrangements without fuss...
...Broadway, but the critics render the decision within an hour and 15 minutes, and it is a major decision, one from which there is little appeal. The theater is probably the only business in the world where a major decision is made so quickly, with so little fuss, bother or delay, and with so much celerity and honesty. The success of a play is a contingent thing, contingent on those seven [New York] critics. Yet I do not want it any other...