Word: fussing
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...Linda McVeigh Matthew's exec. comp. the Harvard football team held its annual dinner here in this very building. That was during the week she was trial sports editor and she showed up to cover it, and of course they didn't let her in. Did we raise a fuss and threaten to boycott all future coverage of the Harvard football team? As I might add The New York Times Washington Bureau this year found it necessary to boycott the private background briefing sessions that go on in Washington which do not in this year 1973 admit women reporters...
That $500 fuss came at a time when the whole bail system is under attack. Last week, in fact, a commission studying the New York State court system despaired of the whole thing and recommended that bail be done away with. Instead, it proposed that all defendants be released until trial, except certain suspects who a judge thinks are not likely to return. "The possibility that a defendant might commit a criminal offense while on release should not be a ground for detaining him," it said...
...Government's reckoning), moderate Indian leaders are outraged and fearful of a backlash that could hurt the entire Indian movement. But it was not only the young militants who debased the old traditions. Anxious to bring the whole shabby episode to an end with as little fuss as possible, the Administration hastily collected $66,650 in "expense money" from various agencies, sent the wampum to the bureau in a black leather attaché case and had it passed out to the young demonstrators as they finally ended their siege. That was a very long way from 1792 when...
...keep our perspective. I really don't see what the fuss is all about...
After half an hour in a grounded plane with no air conditioning, the irate captain finally convinced the airport controllers that there was no skyjacker. Only then did the cause of all the fuss come out. The flight engineer had dialed the emergency signal accidentally. On the assumption that it had not transmitted in the brief moment before he corrected it, he spun the radio dial and decided not to inform his captain...