Word: fussings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...using a private dealer to handle the sale, the Comtesse Attems followed the lead of many another titled owner who wished to dispose of ancestral holdings without the unseemly fuss of a public exhibition. The progress of her drawings through Slatkin's hands to their eventual resting place was typical of a private dealer's transactions. "We are the matchmakers of the art world," says Dealer Harold Diamond, who is himself so discreet that he refuses to disclose the names of any of his customers or sources. They are the middlemen who arrange the transfer of precious works...
...father take his daughter on a cruise to Alaska without stirring up a fuss? Not if Daddy is Cory Grant. Outraged because the Peninsular and Oriental passenger steamship company released a picture of him and his four-year-old daughter Jennifer (his only child, by Actress Dyan Cannon, 32), the 66-year-old actor called off the trip and vowed to sue the line. Why? Because, said Gary, "my ex-wife and I have agreed not to allow our child to be photographed. There's too much crime and violence in the world, and we don't want...
...center of much of the fuss was Brazil's No. 1 hero, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé. The star of Brazil's Santos team, he is universally regarded as the best player in the game. His annual income: an estimated $500,000 from salary, bonuses, endorsement fees and his many business interests. At 29, he has played on all three of Brazil's world-championship teams, a feat that has made him a national idol in a land where futebol is revered and a welcome escape from an often dreary existence...
...CFIA is one of the keystones of "liberal" policy toward the Third World. It is seeking to do the job of the Vietnam war without the embarrassing muss and fuss. So the CFIA seeks to deny the conditions (rather than the more obvious CIA policy of denying leaders) that fuel revolutionary situations. Thus the CFIA does not oppose, for example, land reform, if it is a necessary condition for ensuring order, and keeping leaders friend
When news of the massacre broke last November, most Americans at first refused to believe that it had happened. When the basic facts became incontestable, many people still considered them too mundane to merit such a fuss or thought the whole thing ought to be kept quiet so as not to comfort the enemy. Anyone who can read these two books and still cling to either view has lost all sensibility or is beyond the reach of the written word...