Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national media makes the same sort of fuss over dissension among people of color--as if we're supposed to be a monolith, think alike, see the world in the same way simply because we are a shade darker than others--or for some other reason we can't, or don't want to, explain...
...tonking in American music that runs way back, considerably before rock, to the blues bars, jazz joints and love parlors where rag and Dixie got going from the turn of the century on. These days, call a group a bar band and you mean they play rock with no fuss and maybe a little sloppiness that can pass for funk. The Fabulous Thunderbirds, who made their first album in 1979 and have opened concerts for the Rolling Stones, still have the true chugalug spirit of a bar band--you can almost hear the beer bottles whistling past their heads during...
...solidarity of the British union movement is cracking. Following Fleet Street's example, other recalcitrant unions, notably those representing teachers and autoworkers, may be forced to modify their demands. Some government officials even grandly predict international consequences. Said one: "If Fleet Street can move decisively with a minimum of fuss, British industry will clearly present a different image across the world...
...THEN THERE'S all this fuss over whether SI ought to be involved in the swimsuit business...
...Lesbian Students Association, and that they might not be pleased to see a hulking football player walk over and remove their sign. They immediately protested; one guy grabbed him, and a senior adviser demanded his bursar's card. Sam just stood there, bewildered and amazed at all the fuss. He didn't fight back, he didn't raise his voice, he didn't say anything obscene. He was just a small town kid reacting to what he perceived was an injustice in the seating system. His purpose was not to make a political statement against the GLSA...