Word: fusses
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...sooner had the fire subsided, however, than the flames of controversy were rekindled over the new Bishop of Durham. Jenkins, a professor of theology at the University of Leeds, had caused much of the fuss in a TV appearance about a month after he was named to the diocese. He had declared that the Virgin birth and the Resurrection might be more symbolic than literal, and that a person could be a good Christian even while doubting the divinity of Jesus. Immediately, traditionalists mounted a counterattack. The conservative Church of England Newspaper condemned Jenkins as a man "who takes pride...
...homosexuality is merely a "sexual preference"-if a lover's sex is as much a matter of taste as, say, hair color (or having it butter-side up or butter-side down)-then why the to-do over two men dancing together at Disneyland? But there is a fuss, because there is a difference. One can understand neither with language that refuses to make distinctions...
Because by then, the Harvard women's lacrosse squad's biggest star had put the Crimson on the road to success and had showed her mom what the fuss they called "lacrosse" was all about...
...members said they thought the protest was an overreaction. "This is an enormous fuss for a parody," said one member who refused to be identified. "We're just a bunch of guys who go in for a couple of beers...
...coast, orphaned in infancy and raised by an extended family of apes, he is rescued and restored to his patrimony by a passing explorer (Ian Holm, who symbolizes humanity at its best). Unfortunately, he fits as uneasily into English society as he did into simian society, despite the loving fuss made over him by his grandfather (the late Ralph Richardson in all his glorious eccentricity). The old man's death, when he attempts to break free of lordly constraint to celebrate his grandson's return, and the death of Tarzan's ape "father," at the hands...