Word: fash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Buffum fash himself no more; wherever it came from (authorities disagree),"doughboy" has no money taint. According to H. L. Mencken (The American Language): "Doughboy is an old English Navy term for dumpling ... is said to have originated in the fact that the infantrymen once pipe-clayed parts of their uniforms, with the result that they became covered with a doughy mass when it rained." Alternative version: Civil War cavalrymen coined it as a term of kindly contempt for infantrymen; it referred to the doughnut-shaped brass buttons on their uniforms...
...fourth is freedom from fear -which, translated into world terms, means a worldwide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fash ion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor-anywhere in the world...