Word: fusses
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...making this fuss...
...country is going to grow," says Kappel. "But I don't believe we did very well when we started explaining it. We took the attitude it's something we've got to do, and why the hell bother to explain." The fuss has since died down, and the advent of direct distance dialing will, within the next decade, enable telephone users to call any major country in the world by dialing twelve digits...
...fuss about L.B.J. yanking the ears of his pet beagles? He's been doing the same thing to those poor dogs up on Capitol Hill ever since he took office...
Gentle Handling. Magneform is already doing many useful jobs: aluminum and copper are being joined to porcelain insulators for outdoor wiring; the metal bands around artillery shells are being fitted quickly without any fuss. The auto industry is using Magneform to produce ball-joint and seal assemblies for front suspensions. Magne-form's principal advantage over welding, pressing or stamping is its ability to shape metals without the rough handling that such operations ordinarily require. Automated assembly-line operation can be managed easily, and Magneform men are already looking toward the day when most subsidiary parts of an auto...
...Hero & The Villain. Eatherly began to enjoy the fuss that people were at last making over him, and he embellished the legend: he had passed the Texas bar; he took part in the raid on Nagasaki; the Air Force had pressured him to stop propagandizing against the atom bomb. "All over the world, I'm the Hiroshima pilot now," he told Huie in a moment of hubris. "A hundred years from now I'll be the only American anybody thinks of in connection with Hiroshima. Maybe they'll remember Truman too. Eatherly and Truman. The hero...