Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even people convinced of the righteousness of the amateur cause have found it difficult to absorb Harvard's last three football defeats without a slight touch of indigestion. There is something intrinsically unpleasant about being slaughtered, and when outsiders are making a great deal of fuss over the losses, things are that much worse...
...across the Dominion, local officials were in a dither of preparation and expectation. As the fuss and festivity of the royal tour got underway, the Times of London struck the proud note of empire: "Wherever [Elizabeth] goes, she represents the future of the British Commonwealth, and how much of that future may belong to Canada, it would be difficult to overestimate...
...hell of it is, it isn't your fault. As the University organ of the undergraduate body you are required to reflect the usual undergraduate headline activities--the Saturday football game included. As human beings of some intelligence, you must also realize that your are exciting a lot of fuss over an admittedly well-meaning but inept ball club. And as human beings of sensitivity you must also realize the price that must be paid by the large university for a winning ball club. Sometimes it is simply no more nor less than academic integrity. Quite an exacting price...
...read with no little amusement the fuss stirred up in Newmarket (England) by Mrs. Stocker [TIME, Sept. 3]. Mrs. Stocker is still young-by all standards. You Americans are sometimes perturbed by the growing "anti-Americanism" now to be seen throughout the world . . . What is the cause of all this? It's all so very simple...
...week. Newmarket (pop. 9,767) exploded. "Damned cheek!" snorted outraged townsfolk in bus queues and pubs. Growled George Goult, chairman of the urban district council: "I and the rest of the town take a very poor view of it... We shall refute it officially." London tabloids stirred up a fuss...