Word: fussing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first two ads are unlikely to cause much fuss. As two women run for a train and another heads for a fancy dinner, the camera reveals each in her bra for a few seconds. Even so, NBC will only run the spots when children are in school. What next? Advertisers of men's underwear are already seeking the right to follow suit...
Even after listening many times to works well-established in the classical canon, some will shrug and ask themselves what the fuss is all about. Such is life. But many people may find in the music of the classical "greats" something missing from other types of music...
...three Hail Marys. At home, at school, in church and even among the police, grownups fail her. The story's most compelling relationship unfolds between Zanny and her adopted sister Dolly, who witnesses the first killing, of their younger brother. Dolly keeps her guard up but never raises a fuss: she wants Zanny's parents to continue paying for her education and shrewdly assesses them as candidates for tacit blackmail. Gill, a former elementary school teacher, has a keen understanding of how children's minds work and of the egocentric way they view the world...
...fuss over the pork-barrel issue masks a significant turnabout in the condition of the nation's highways. In 1982, the last time Congress passed a comprehensive highway bill, the debate was dominated by scare talk of decaying roads and crumbling bridges, complete with suggestions that the nation's transportation system would soon go the way of New York City's abandoned West Side Highway. Experts bandied around figures like $3 trillion for rebuilding America's decaying infrastructure. In truth, the Interstate Highway System was in trouble. Traffic had far outstripped the projections made when the system was initially planned...
...fuss...