Word: mussed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the President waded into the crowd to shake hands, he ignited a frenzy of affection unlike any thing seen in American politics since the campaign of the late Robert Kennedy. Adoring kids charged across police lines, girls squealed, babies cried, one woman fainted and another reached out to muss Nixon's hair. Nixon, fight ing to stay on his feet, seemed to enjoy every moment. He signed autographs, had himself photographed with a local woman and her child, and pumped hundreds of hands before making his way back to the sanctuary of his plane...
...thing almost immediately: the extraordinary deference local pedestrians pay to passing motorists. They actually stand patiently--on the curb--while a red light flashes its warning. When it turns green in their direction, and all vehicles grind obediently to a halt, Washingtonians finally plod across the street. No muss, no fuss, no howling drivers, no bruised pedestrians, no frantic policemen...
...wise. One copy went to Dr. Karl Goerdeler, once mayor of Leipzig and then deeply involved in the plot on Hitler's life and in planning a postwar German government. After Goerdeler was arrested, he smuggled word about Erhard from his prison cell to friends outside: Der Mann muss Minister werden-this man must become a minister. Goerdeler was ex ecuted shortly thereafter. Ludwig Erhard, relieved that the Nazis had not caught him too, spent the rest of the war in virtual isolation with his family...
...fuss. No muss. Just progress...
...seven rounds, Giardello pecked at the face that Robinson once promised "ain't nobody gonna muss this up." Robinson covered up and clinched. A left hook bounced Ray to the canvas for a six-count in the fourth. The referee graciously called it a slip. With three rounds to go, Sugar Ray desperately attacked, but his punches had no sting and the officials' cards were unanimous: 49.43, 48-45, 47-43-all for Giardello. In his dressing room, while flunkies fanned his flab, Ray Robinson grimaced sadly: his $14,500 purse had been attached by federal taxmen...