Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jennifer Jones, for another example, is a shy, eager, gifted girl who last year underwent the alarming experience of being rocketed to stardom almost overnight by her performance in The Song of Bernadette. Jennifer was confused and frightened by the fuss made over her. From now on, she realized, people would stare at her, expect something of her. She lacked confidence; she did not dress well; she did not know how to give a party. She did not know how to be photographed, how to make herself up, what dresses to buy, how to talk casually with people...
This evening we crossed another canal-the Wessem in the Roermond area. A Scottish regiment made the crossing, and they made it "without fuss or bother, with a calmness that comes from lots of experience. The show started at 4 p.m.-dusk here - with a 400-gun barrage which lasted 15 minutes. They fired high-explosive shells for the first twelve minutes, and then finished off with smoke, to blind the enemy. Under cover of the smoke, the troops made their assault...
What the U.S. has always liked, and usually got, is a Vice President who raises neither fuss nor feathers, who serves his term and then sinks back into comfortable anonymity. There have been some 20th-century exceptions, men like Garner and Wallace who made news while in office. But Vice Presidents are mainly remembered, when they are, for irrelevancies, like Thomas Marshall for his catch phrase: "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar...
...police station, where he was charged with illegal possession of novocaine and a hypodermic, and bail set at $500. Though Mr. Gorgak admitted that the treatment had been painless, and that his teeth looked good, he did not plan to pay Mr. Pavlides anything, after all the fuss. "I should pay him nothing," Mr. Gorgak said "-the worry and the bother it cost...
...never goes through the ritual of addressing the ball, without preliminary ado just steps up and hits it; he figures that he would lose about 25% of his effectiveness if he stopped to fiddle and fuss...