Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past two years, the Brazilians have paid little mind to fishermen from Brittany who dropped their nets near by and returned home with holds filled with the live, spiny lobsters. Occasionally the Brazilian navy stopped a trawler for venturing too near shore, but there was little fuss about it. Then two months ago, local lobstermen woke up to the fact that the French were nipping quite a chunk out of their $3,000,000 annual export business. Hair-triggered Brazilian jingoists joined in the protest...
...point: in an insane world, sanity is madness. Duly confined to an asylum, Faehmel's mother at last recognizes her most dreaded enemy-not the Nazis, who personify the known power of evil, but respectability, which would rather look the other way than cause a fuss...
...this more visible than in the U.S., where both business and government frequently based their most impor tant economic actions on the need to become more competitive in world markets. The turning point of the year for the U.S. economy?the great steel crisis?seemed a peculiarly domestic fuss. But when U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough decided to raise steel prices $6 a ton less than a week after his company had signed its first noninflationary labor contract since the Korean war. he used foreign competition as a justification for his move. Overseas competitors, paying lower wages and operating more...
...between freedom to speak and license to libel, Newton failed to act decisively. By the time he got around to removing the student editor for irresponsibility, it was too late to erase an impression that the president did not think the attack on Goldwater was anything to make a fuss about. On Election Day came the reckoning: riled-up voters elected two outspoken Newton-must-go Republicans to the university's board of regents. Last week, with the election results ringing in his ears, Newton announced his resignation, effective next June...
...concentrate on plain dishes prepared the way Mom used to make them, and to have only women do the cooking. Five-foot five-inch Vernon Stouffer, 61, who is married and the father of three, is convinced that "women know food better than men. They like to fuss with foods-they care more." Stouffer's food is unlikely to send a gourmet into raptures, or to show much evidence of fuss, but it is inevitably eatable, usually tasty, always well-served, and priced moderately. The economy luncheon special averages a dollar...