Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could come in simulta neously. Another near impasse was averted at the conference's end when Stalin insisted that he be the first to sign, since the British Prime Minister and the U.S. President had each been first in two previous conferences. Harry Truman refused to make a fuss about it. "You can sign any time you want to," he snorted. "I don't care...
...fuss, the brief deals only peripherally with the issues for which Baird has been fighting. A lawyer has to find constitutional excuses for what are more basically humanitarian questions...
...least to convince himself that they did: at one ponit, Wallace is quoted as telling a group of Negro educators, just before the 1966 campaign for governor, "Now I get out speakin' to folks, don't pay any attention to what I say, 'cause I'm gonna have to fuss at y'all. But I don't mean...
This raises the question of why there is such a big fuss over the lack of televised debates. Obviously, a confrontation between personalities would be revealing and possibly decisive. But even if the candidates met headon, what would they talk about? The answer should be: plenty. At least five categories of issues cry out for deeper discussion...
...Asian to be so honored since 1913, when the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore was selected. Kawabata, 69, stepped into the limelight calmly. "I feel I am very lucky," he told the caller who brought the news. "It is a great honor." Later, he showed concern that "too great a fuss" might be made. "For authors," he said, "honors can some times become unbearable burdens...