Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast I.G. Farben building in Frankfurt, correspondents busily buttonholed U.S. officials and tried to pump them for news. Word had got out that High Commissioner John J. McCloy had received a new directive from Washington on U.S. policy in Germany. "I don't see what all the fuss is about," snapped one of McCloy's top aides. "There's very little in the directive that you couldn't have written yourself...
Unaware of all this fuss, Albrechtskirchinger said yesterday that even in Germany, where he lived prior to this year, people had been having trouble...
When the spirit moves him, Montreal Sculptor Robert Roussil, 24, does not fuss around with preliminary sketches; he snatches up hammer & chisel and attacks the raw material as it stands. Last summer he saw an oddly shaped tree, a tall pine with a forked trunk, and the spirit moved. By the time all the chips had fallen, Roussil had an impressionistic piece sculptured in the totemic form: a father standing in front of a kneeling mother holding a child. He called it Family Group...
...current "fuss" in Massachusetts, she said, is caused by laws dating from colonial times. Eighty percent of her inmates, she pointed out, are merely social offenders who would not be jailed in a progressive state, such as Illinois...
...structural steelworkers and machinists were refusing to go to work. Their reason: as long as there were 3,000 jobless in Omaha, the company shouldn't go and hire a foreigner. Stefan loitered uncomprehendingly outside the plant for some time before he discovered that he was what the fuss was all about...