Word: fusses
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...novels about Klee, as there are about Gauguin, Modigliani and Picasso. For nothing ever happened to him. Even when the Nazis in 1933 began their suppression of cultural freedom in Germany, where Klee had been teaching for twelve years, he quietly moved back to Switzerland for refuge without fuss or rancor. Politics did not interest him, and his life-style scarcely changed. With his tabby cats, his violin, and his watercolors hung out to dry like dish towels on a clothesline in his studio, Klee had always seemed like the Caspar Milquetoast of the avantgarde. From boyhood, he had managed...
...officials are candidly baffled by the Soviet conduct in the past two months, especially in the Middle East. Moscow not only advanced its missiles in Egypt, but even after all of the fuss that created, it is still strengthening Nasser's air defenses in violation of the agreement, knowing full well that U.S. and Israeli intelligence detect every move. "This is deliberate?it is not clandestine," observes one Soviet expert in the U.S. Kremlin strategy raises all the old doubts about Moscow's intentions of abiding by any pact it enters...
...CFIA is one of the keystones of "liberal" policy toward the Third World. It is seeking to do the job of the Vietnam war without the embarrassing muss and fuss. So the CFIA seeks to deny the conditions (rather than the more obvious CIA policy of denying leaders) that fuel revolutionary situations. Thus the CFIA does not oppose, for example, land reform, if it is a necessary condition for ensuring order, and keeping leaders friendly to our interests in power. It counsels economic reform so as to better bypass the troubling social unrest that accompanies popular programs of modernization. This...
...asked Rear Admiral Frank Johnson, his boss, for TNT charges to scuttle the Pueblo in an emergency. The request went to a supply officer, who offered thermite instead. Bucher realized that carrying thermite, an incendiary substance, was both dangerous and contrary to Navy regulations. He could have made a fuss but decided against doing so. "All I could accomplish by pressing it further," he writes as apologia, "was to upset Admiral Johnson and his staff by giving them the impression they had a skipper on their hands who seemed obsessed with the capability to blow up his own ship...
...fuss, the rebellion was restrained and it seemed blacks had the situation more in hand than did the frenzied authorities. "They made it sound like a big thing," one young worker hanging out by Sammie's said later in the week, "but it wasn't shit." He pointed to a big pile of rubble from a building destroyed by urban-renewal, saying television cameramen had been photographing it as "riot damage...