Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pearson seemed surprised by the fuss. Denis had already quietly resigned; Pearson now accepted Guy Rouleau's resignation and appointed Chief Justice Dorion as a one-man commission of public inquiry. To make matters worse, in the midst of the investigation Racketeer Rivard escaped from Montreal's Bordeaux Jail, has not been seen since...
...fuss, though, neither Prime Minister Sato nor South Korea's President Chung Hee Park doubted that their Parliaments would ratify the treaty by year's end. As Park put it: "It is wise that we should hold hands even with yesterday's enemy, if it is beneficial to us today and tomorrow...
Speaking later at a Rutgers University commencement, mostly about the balance-of-payments problem, Martin made wry reference to the fuss he had stirred up. "Recent experience has taught me to be wary," said Martin. "If I should venture to compare our life and learning today with that of Greece in the 5th century B.C., or that of Rome in or after the 1st century B.C. or A.D., I am sure there would be some who-no matter what I said about differences as well as similarities -would interpret my remarks as a prediction that we will be overrun...
...beauty or to hide her faults," says Sarmi. "I hate the ambiguity of women's clothes today. What for is the man to marry, if what he gets is not a woman but an ersatz man in pants?" Sarmi creations offer a woman frills but not fuss, flourishes but not flash, take her to the ball secure in the knowledge of her own absolute femininity...
Edwards and Carter quickly got into a fuss over when Edwards should give up the 18-room, three-story presidential mansion-a key fringe benefit to augment the post's $16,000 salary. One morning, Edwards was reading on his patio when the caretaker discovered that the water had been shut off-on Carter's orders, it developed. Electricity and heat also faded. Edwards' 17-year-old daughter had to dress at a neighbor's house for her high school graduation. Edwards called the cutoff "an outrage." Carter called Edwards "rude and obstinate." Furious, students hanged...