Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brass gathered round. A smartly uniformed honor guard snapped to salute, four 105-mm. guns boomed a 17-gun salute. General Lucius D. Clay hopped out and looked about him with the fixed smile and nervous glance of a man who was surprised by all the fuss. After four controversial years in Germany-two of them as U.S. Military Governor-Lucius Clay had come home to a hero's welcome...
Frank Matthews looked like the solid, conservative type the Senate would confirm without much fuss. Nebraska's two Republican Senators, Kenneth Wherry and Hugh Butler, liked him. A handful of liberal Senators, led by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, were less happy about the President's choice. They remembered Matthews from 1946, when he sparkplugged a U.S. Chamber of Commerce campaign to paint Communist Red on the Administration and on union labor...
...first prize at an international exhibition in Venice. Last week, Yorkshire-born Henry Moore let the homefolks in on what he had been doing by holding a retrospective show in the red brick, grey-roofed town of Wakefield. Six thousand Yorkshiremen turned up to see what all the fuss was about. The proof of Henry Moore's pudding, they figured, would be in the eating...
Suprugov has forced his first wife to have an abortion for sheer terror at the thought of the fuss a child would make. In his abnormal ache for sympathy, he falsifies his dead mother as an out-all-night card player in order to make his childhood sound tragic. He flies into a rage when he is called from dinner to attend a wounded woman who is having a premature baby. And yet the author has regarded Suprugov so compassionately that the reader may feel compassion for the wretch...
...Theater's decision last summer to abandon plays and show movies, rather than accept Actors' Equity's ruling that Negroes must not be barred from the audience. Julius Caesar sold tickets to all applicants, had a sprinkling of Negro customers-and not a hint of a fuss...