Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jacqueline Roque, a dark-haired, dark-eyed Antibes' woman, fortyish. self-effacing, maternal, and of course lovely to look at-Picasso has no fear of ugliness in art, but he does not appreciate it in women. For Jacqueline Roque's sake, and because he does hate fuss, Picasso passed up last week's festivities in Paris. He was busy settling into an ornate villa, La Californie, overlooking Cannes and the blue Mediterranean...
Scurrying Diplomats. Out Asia way. Indonesia's Premier Sastroamidjojo flew back to Djakarta brimming over with gratitude for the fuss Peking's Communists had made over him. In Hanoi, the Viet Minh's Ho Chi Minh, in an interview with the London Sunday Times, produced his own project for smearing up demarcation lines. He proposed a Bandung-like conference of leaders and intellectuals from the "little nations" of Asia and the West not closely associated with what he called imperialist pasts. They could talk over economic and technical cooperation...
...security offices as U.S. newsmen do, was baffled by all the excitement over his "breach of security." Said he: "All the Air Force has to do is to ignore our drawing. They're the only ones who can say whether it was correct or not. By making a fuss, they tend to give the impression that we were right...
Without more fuss than Dryden's or Defoe...
...arms, palms down. Safe? Leo Durocher, the Giants' manager, boiled from the bench. Unaccountably astonished because Durocher and 27,297 fans had misunderstood him, Pinelli jerked his thumb over his shoulder and allowed that Amoros was out. Durocher simmered down. Dodger Manager Alston kicked up a brief fuss just for the record...