Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Generally, however, a committee's recommendations are accepted with out much fuss, unless there are physical (i.e., financial) limitations present. Recommendations get by easily for the same reason committees exist--most Faculty members do not feel competent to dispute proposals by colleagues who have devoted time and effort to them...
...been told the carrot color enhances my olive complexion. Addicted to loud sports shirts he despised formalities and shunned pretensions. "Just call me God," he told his subjects in heaven. At the same time, he was rather touchy about Christmas. "Nobody, I notice, ever makes a fuss over my birthday," he once complained in his diary...
...affiliated universities provide directors to run the corporation and supply experts-usually professors on leave of absence-to work on specific projects. Despite all the fuss at Columbia over IDA, none of its professors are actually on the IDA payroll, although about 300 have signed up to serve when needed as part-time consultants. Columbia President Grayson Kirk and Columbia Trustee William Burden serve on IDA's executive committee...
Exhales a pre-dawn rain. But no rain now. A fuss of finches...
...have been hanging people for years, but I have never had all this fuss before...