Word: fussed
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...Harvard moves slowly," he went on, "it's an old man. What I really object to is the fuss Harvard's made over this. It is not a landmark, or a milestone, or anything of the kind. But it's nice to have you trailing along with...
...deepest surgery ever practiced on U.S. taxes-the slicing off of $5.9 billion -was completed without fuss or flowers. For what once would have been considered a miracle of scalpel work, Congress engaged in a minimum of consultations beforehand, a minimum of self-congratulation afterward. The taxpayer, though assured the operation had been a success, felt hardly better...
...dictatorship had come to an end in Latin America's biggest country. Getulio Vargas, the man who introduced modern authoritarianism to Brazil and the New World 15 years ago, was out of the Presidency. And it had all happened with remarkably little fuss. Said Rio de Janeiro's Diario de Noticias: "The abdication was as easy as rotten fruit dropping off a tree...
...desire to go back. He came home a lieutenant, surprised to find a flattering array of jobs thrust at him. He took the best one-roving columnist for the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance -and went at it like a marine. Last week his first column kicked up a fine fuss...
Meanwhile, the hosts of the resettled were kicking up a fuss. From Alberta came a reminder to Ottawa that its Japs were temporary residents. The Union of British Columbia Municipalities demanded that every one of the Japs be repatriated to Japan...