Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other organizations, reads the latest bestsellers, takes a voice in community affairs. Even more important, more than 20 million U.S. women hold jobs outside the home; they do not want to come home to overtime hours in the kitchen, so need foods that can be prepared quickly and without fuss. For such women processed foods are indispensable; there is no other...
...since Hollywood Lyricist Howard Dietz wrote a new English libretto for La Boheme six years ago (Love, rhymed Dietz, "is a feast for a Roman/ It's warming my abdomen") had a Metropolitan Opera production created such a fuss. "Among the finest productions in Bing's regime," wrote Miles Kastendiek in the New York Journal-American. "Non-Mozartean shenanigans," snorted Howard Taubman in the Times, while the Herald Tribune's Paul Henry Lang denounced it as "a travesty." Occasion: a new production, staged by Broadway's Cyril Ritchard, of Mozart's comic masterpiece, The Marriage...
...fuss was embarrassing to Ontario's Education Minister William Dunlop. His own engineering specifications: about 5 ft. 6 in., more than 210 Ibs. Did he agree that a fat teacher is a bad teacher? With citizens clamoring for an answer, Dunlop took cover in the explanation that obesity is dangerous, busied himself with plans to reduce Jim Babinetz and get him back into teachers college. Said chubby Minister Dunlop: "It's purely a health matter...
...clarity of your coverage of the issues involved in the current discussion of the disclaimer affidavit under the National Defense Education Act. As I get a sense of student opinion from your columns and from casual discussions, I realize that quite a few students feel that too much fuss is being made about a mere ritual of words--words that will satisfy "politicians" but that have no possible educational consequences, while other students feel that it is hopeless for any one institution, or even group of institutions, to take a stand on principle against the inevitable. (There are still other...
...disappointment of her Spanish audience, she barely managed to rise above middle C, moved one critic to write: "The Bilbao public demonstrated perfect manners in not showing greater disgust." Then it was back to her sailor-man, who was having something of a crisis himself. "All the fuss" over his choice of a traveling companion, groaned Onassis, was threatening to wreck his marriage (Wife Tina had gone to New York, reportedly to see her lawyer). Maria and I-"We love each other, but in God's name there is nothing of a sexual nature." Would he replace Callas...