Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...morning after the New York Post published charges that George Bush had an extramarital affair, Noelle Bush, 15, asked her grandmother what all the fuss was about. As the two sat by the White House pool Wednesday morning, Barbara Bush explained that the newspapers were reporting that Noelle's grandfather allegedly had a fling with a former staff member eight years earlier. "Come on, Ganny," said the girl. "That's what they're saying," Mrs. Bush replied. When Noelle broke into giggles, the First Lady upbraided her in mock horror. "That's sort of insulting to your grandfather." Replied Noelle...
...Disabilities Act, rationing care becomes impossible. "There are a lot of disabled folks who don't qualify for Medicaid who would have received coverage under our plan," says Oregon's frustrated senate president, Dr. John Kitzhaber, father of the proposal. But almost nobody in Oregon -- or Washington -- thinks the fuss about the handicapped is anything but a smoke screen. Oregon's real mistake is that it tried to make tough choices about health care in an election year when timid politicians prefer to avoid the issue like the plague...
...most popular act on tour so far this year? It is -- yes -- the Grateful Dead, who have been touring virtually nonstop since the 1960s and whose legions of devoted fans (known as Dead Heads) continue to turn out year after year. The group takes a decidedly low-tech, no-fuss approach to performing, and maybe there's a lesson here. In any case, it certainly seems to exemplify a novel concept: just play good music...
Zinn criticized the University for failing todismiss the trespassing charges against Moynahan."Once Harvard university was apprised of whathappened, they should have insisted the chargesbe dropped," he said. "They're hoping no one willraise a big fuss...
Hepburn is no more introspective in person than she was in her off-the-top- of-her-head, sentence-fragment memoir. Hepburn does not like people who "make a fuss." When she found her 16-year-old brother dead, hanging from the rafters by bed sheets, she cried later because it was expected of her. The apparent suicide was never discussed. She waits until the last chapter to talk about Tracy, who she says initially believed the rumor that she was a lesbian. She says she never knew how he really felt about her and wonders now if she "should...