Word: fret
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ammonium nitrate's outwardly peaceful molecule perpetually strains with suppressed desires. The oxygen and hydrogen atoms are not combined with each other, as their natures prompt them to be. They fret in frustrated juxtaposition, kept from an explosive embrace by a frangible barrier of chemical propriety...
Reflectively the old man scrapes a yellow tooth with a black fingernail. "Comrade," says he, "a very old man shouldn't fret over things bygone or things to come. I only want to do business. Then all will be right...
...large-scale problem. A project of the same type at Harvard could not be completed in time to ease the September squeeze. Now University Hall must scramble to avert tragedy with all the means it can beg, brow or steal over the summer. It is also too late to fret over the eyesore quality of a colony of Quonset huts. The alternative picture of a family of three living in one room is not pretty either...
...Allies mingles with old Bank of France notes. At first most shopkeepers worried because the printing on the new currency said only that the money was issued in France, named no guarantor. Now Mme. Chideu and her customers accept the Allied notes without question. Only the higher-ups still fret...
...Work Goes On. Most likely successor to the retiring Chief Justice is his able subordinate and close friend, mustached French-Canadian Justice Thibaudeau Rinfret (rhymes with kin-fret) because of Canada's custom of alternating top judicial appointments between the two language groups and major religions. French and Catholic, balding Justice Rinfret, like his colleague, believes that the law is not an "affair of literal precepts but a social instrument...