Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was more than such rare sport to the fuss over Hugh Butler's astronomically wrong facts. His accusations enjoyed wide circulation through the Reader's Digest, which sent three writers about South America with him. Some Latin Americans already fear that the end of the New Deal may mean the end of Good Neighborliness. Hugh Butler's partisan rancor would probably travel faster in South America than the news that all major Republican Presidential possibilities unanimously endorsed Good Neighborliness...
...This fuss about General Patton losing his temper (TIME, Nov. 29, Dec. 6) makes us look pretty soft. Who the hell ever heard of a war going on without some emotional excitement? If, in his excitement, he struck the wrong man, why start an uproar...
John L. Again. The railroads, piling up their biggest surpluses in two decades, had agreed without fuss to meet the 8? rise for the "non-ops" without asking for rate increases. But there was one cold fact which would send them scurrying to the ICC with a demand for higher freight rates: a rise in the price of coal...
Franklin Roosevelt admitted that the discussion provoked by the Senators' criticisms might produce some good, added that, while some British animosity was inevitable, most Britishers would understand that the fuss-&-feathers stirred up by the Senators was equally inevitable in a working democracy. But he nonetheless called the criticisms a damned nuisance, then went on to answer some of them. His points...
When World War II began Llewellyn became transport officer routing shows around for ENSA (Entertainments National Services Association). Early in 1940 he joined the Army, was soon made a captain. Later there was some kind of fuss...