Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month the smoldering fuss flared further. The tinder: Lourdes' new Information Center, founded with the blessings of France's Cardinal Tisserant. Bishop Théas discovered not only that one of the center's staff priests belonged to Opus Cenaculi, but that it was planning to start its own publishing house instead of devoting all revenue to the basilica...
...Delhi fortnight ago, four couples demonstrated a simple solution: Delhi's first cut-rate mass wedding, with no fuss and no dowries at all. Members of the Jain sect, India's fifth biggest religious group (biggest: Hindus), the couples arrived quietly at a Jain temple. Only ostentation: the four brides' traditionally exquisite silk saris, and the bridegrooms' jeweled turbans. Stripped of party gaud, the go-minute wedding ceremony took on added religious significance, from the sound of the Sanskrit scripture chanted by four pandits to the odor of marigold garlands and the glow of incense...
With less fuss, Oxford went about its own plans for a $7,000,000 science college. The new institution will take the name of the present, nonresidential St. Catherine's Society, house some 400 scholars. Proposed opening date for St. Catherine's College: October...
...time has come to insist on getting what you have paid for. In every place where the service is bad or inconsiderate, go and start a row. A big one. You'd be surprised how it pays off." Crowed the Sunday Dispatch: "The moral is-kick up a fuss wherever there is sloppiness or inefficiency. As big a fuss as you can manage." Fearing for life and limb, skittish London Transport workers appealed for help to their union, which last week demanded compensation for any railwayman who might be assaulted by indignant passengers...
Down Went the Facade. To make matters worse, there was still the tricky question of just who was to be buried in the Valley of the Fallen. Franco had decreed that the dead or both sides should lie there. But his own Falange followers kicked up such a fuss that the matter had to be dropped (TIME, Sept. 22). With the public not at all in the mood for a dedication of the Valley, Franco began stalling for time...