Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people will be out of work. But the city's economy, booming from the $40 million Disney World venture, will hardly notice the loss. Though Georgia will lose three military bases, Senator Sam Nunn said he would ask some questions of the Administration but not raise too much fuss. Compared to the cutbacks in other states, he declared, "Georgia fared well...
...rural South, where every filling station harbors a budding pit crew and every stop sign is a potential starting line for an impromptu drag race, auto racing is a way of life. At the drive-in hamburger stands, kids who first soloed on John Deere tractors fuss over their souped-up cars and talk endlessly about "axle ratios" and "camshaft durations." Their heroes are the stock-car drivers who ride the Grand National circuit, a highballing competition that first took hold in the 1950s. The king of the road then was Lee Petty, a lead-footed type who roared...
...married a French Jew. "I don't wish to be ashamed of my people," she said. "It is my duty not to allow war criminals to be considered as fine upstanding citizens." Mrs. Klarsfeld held press conferences, organized demonstrations, circulated photographs and generally made such a fuss that she finally got a letter from a German in Lima, Peru, saying he had seen Barbie there under the name of Altmann. That prompted the French to ask for his extradition. Before the request reached Lima, Altmann retreated to Bolivia, which has no extradition treaty with France. The French nonetheless sent...
...They say you love to fuss and fight...
...emerging nationalist line. It is possible to foresee the second dollar devaluation leading to a strengthening of the U.S. economy, a tearing down of barriers to trade and investment around the globe, and a newly sensible monetary system in which currency values shift frequently but moderately and with little fuss. It is equally possible to envision a world of continuing U.S. deficits, protectionist fences around national economies, and monetary chaos that would strangle the international movements of money, people and goods. Money markets move so swiftly nowadays that the governments of the world's rich nations must act quickly...