Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before leaving for a visit to his home town in Sicily last week, Italy's Premier Mario Scelba sent strict word ahead that no fuss was to be made over him. But the folks back home in Caltagirone, where Scelba's aged mother still lives, paid no attention. They greeted their fellow townsman outside the town with a triumphal fanfare of trumpets and drew him through the streets in a ceremonial coach, bright with caparisoned horses and liveried postillions. As the Premier stood on a balcony to address his old neighbors, a blaze of electric lights spelled...
...schools are concerned, Los Angeles is not noted as a city of peace and quiet. Not so long ago, right-wing critics raised such a fuss that the schools dropped a special UNESCO-sponsored study program. Later, Superintendent Alexander Stoddard was forced to turn down a Ford Foundation grant for the recruiting of teachers because the same sort of critics charged that the foundation was following the Communist line...
After the fuss that you boys made over a letter I sent you some years ago, I swore that I'd never write another word, but this is a situation that raises my hackles. It's all about this All College Weekend. You must think that I'm just a busy body, but all I say is that I wish some other mother had told me a year ago what I know...
...result of the testimony, State School Superintendent M. Dv Collins ordered an investigation of the whole academy. But Board Chairman Whitman was still troubled; at the hearing neither Long nor Nelms had seemed to understand what all the fuss was about. Even after several days, Louis' backside was still a mass of welts and bruises. "Do you call that a spanking or a beating?" Chairman Whitman had asked. Answered Superintendent Nelms: "A spanking...
...reservoir of potential free maid service in institutions around Boston. At Radcliffe Wellesley, Simmons, and countless other colleges, there are literally hundreds of young maids who would not only profit from the experience of tidying room's but could be easily contacted by the students themselves, and with no fuss about Personnel offices and that sort of thins...