Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hanley, a 46-year-old North Dakota lawyer turned Army officer, was guilelessly astonished at the fuss. In his months of collecting reports of atrocities, he had become convinced that the U.S. did not realize the kind of enemy it was fighting in Korea. He had got permission from Ridgway's headquarters to publish his findings, but Ridgway's men apparently did not realize what they were doing...
...fuss was kicked up in the first place by Jesus de Perceval, a sleepy-eyed but ambitious young painter from Almeria. Last month, at the opening of Madrid's Hispano-American Art Biennale, Perceval drew the critics' praise for his Beheading of the Innocents, a large Renaissance-style canvas with eclectically costumed figures, including Roman soldiers, Andalusian mothers and a sky full of angels and DC-6s. The artist was personally congratulated by Franco himself...
...Gulliver? Despite all this jockeying for position, it seemed likely that the Kaesong deadlock would yield to some sort of compromise and that the cease-fire line would be settled at last. But that would not, by any means, signal the end of the war. During all the fuss & fury over the cease-fire line, a time bomb in the agenda had been quietly ticking away: item 3, which concerns supervision of the truce arrangements, and which the U.N. believes must involve inspection by each side behind the opposing lines...
...when she was following Racketeer Mickey Cohen, and he was fired upon by business rivals (the News then let her put a bulletproof corset on her expense account), had Tone arrested and jailed for assault. But, though she is an old tabloid hand, she didn't think the fuss was Newsworthy until the paper wired her to write...
...Dostoevsky? How much fuss will posterity make about Graham Greene? Will it rate him as high as Hemingway or Faulkner? Will he outlast Evelyn Waugh? Will he be mentioned in the same breath as Dostoevsky? Only posterity can answer. But with these three contemporaries, at any rate, Greene can hold up his head. He is as accomplished a craftsman as they, and without the mannerisms with which the two Americans have begun to burlesque their own styles. He has neither the snigger nor the snobbery that are Waugh's trademarks. But when Greene is compared with Dostoevsky, the great...