Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Publisher Dale claimed that he could not understand what all the fuss was about. "It's a bunch of hogwash," he said in a TV interview. "I don't think our reporters are second-class citizens. They can get appointments just like anybody else." And his paper devoted considerable space to explaining that all was shipshape at probate. "It is common knowledge," wrote Enquirer Reporter Caden Blincoe, "that the awarding of appraiserships is a way of returning favors-a form of dispensing political patronage. Patronage is not a dirty word in American politics." Or in the city room...
...student power," he contended that the regents could have taken reprisals, but were "too damn scared." Now, students and labor, symbolized by the assistants union, had been united, and they could close down "the great and profitable university" if it did not "concede to our demands." Actually, the new fuss had alerted most of Berkeley to the fact that the freedom of students and faculty-and the intellectual luster of the entire university-would certainly suffer unless order is maintained. The nonstudent thrill seekers had unwittingly strengthened the hand of Chancellor Heyns...
...They" were the Russians, and all the fuss was about the nine-day state visit of Russian Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin. To reciprocate the warmth of his reception in Moscow last June, De Gaulle seemingly left nothing undone for Kosygin's return visit. Although protocol did not demand it, he himself went to Orly Airport to greet Kosygin, later received him at the presidential palace through the gold-tipped Grille du Coq, usually reserved for presidents and kings. "Vous étes le trés bienvenu," said De Gaulle, making use of a courtly French superlative to show Kosygin...
...What's all the fuss? Even stodgy old Victorian Alfred Tennyson knew that "There lives more faith in honest doubt. Believe me, than in half the creeds...
That could have ended the fuss, but more militant Negroes pressed their demand that a Negro principal be named to present "the proper image." Donovan yielded again, announced that a transfer had been requested by white Principal Stanley R. Lisser, a respected administrator who had deliberately taken on Harlem assignments for ten years...