Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seabright has also stood for lack of fuss. It built no permanent stands, kept its roomy, shingled clubhouse modest. Since Rumson is short of hotels for transients, touring amateurs such as Big Bill Tilden, Little Bill Johnston, Vincent Richards, Molla Mallory, Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs were customarily put up in the sprawling seashore-gothic palaces of the members. Seabright was quiet, too. If a visitor happened to ask for a highball, he was gently reminded that the club has never served liquor. Nor, for 73 years, did the club allow Sunday-morning tennis, though that rule was repealed this...
...Reason: it did not want to disturb price structures throughout the world. Then, after reassessing the chances of war, the board got its courage up, began to buy urgently and widely, and set itself a new goal of a $4 billion stockpile by 1956. Again it stirred up a fuss. Three weeks before the Korean invasion, zinc men howled that stockpiling was driving prices too high for U.S. plants and their customers. These cries were drowned out by the lead men, bawling that their prices would fall because the board was slacking off its lead buying...
...candidates for the gubernatorial nomination: a well-to-do manufacturer in the basement, who had set up the best bar of any candidate; a lawyer, and the mayor of Waterbury, quartered on the second floor; Congressman John Davis Lodge on four, a onetime governor on six. Amid the general fuss and clutter, two men, in a feud that was both personal and political, worked hardest to collar delegates. Handsome, fast-talking Lawyer J. Kenneth Bradley, out for the nomination for governor, was trying to regain the party control he had o«ce held as Connecticut Republicanism...
...case. The House Judiciary Committee heard Mrs. Knauff's story-she had served the British R.A.F. with distinction during the war, worked for the U.S. in Germany after the war, sworn that she had never been a Communist or a Communist sympathizer. What, then, was all the fuss about...
When evening arrived the American sailors came ashore. As soon as they landed scores of Italians gathered around them chattering and laughing. Suddenly Palmira, curious to know what the fuss was about, walked through the dusk to the edge of the crowd. As she stood there, an American sailor "with a hat like a saucepan" thrust some chocolate and a carton of cigarettes into her hands. Before she could say anything he was gone...