Word: fret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since the President's heart attack, are uneasily aware of the mental and physical effects of overstrain. However, when they think of relaxation, the majority think in terms of strenuous, competitive recreation, such as golf. But the trouble with such sports is that businessmen tend to overexert and fret over their performance. And in recent years the golf course has become a kind of office with trees, where businessmen are as intent on arranging ways of raising their incomes as on lowering their scores. Says Norman Livermore Jr., California lumber-firm executive and onetime athlete: '"The great appeal...
...Hand me my dulcy-more," 62-year-old "Aunt" Ellen Fields will chirp to a visitor at her house near Viper. "This thang hain't much good any more. Ah put in a new fret-just took a pin and bit the head offen h'it-but h'it still don't play too good." When she plays, she puts the three-stringed instrument across her lap, then strums out the tune on the top string while the bottom two give off a thin, constant drone. For lonesome songs, she tunes the top string down...
...Cadillac engine into the ribs of a Ford and barreling out to surprise his friends on the highway. Among the well-heeled, there is a boom in sports cars; among the nostalgic, the urge to find a "classic," or "antique," such as a vintage Mercer, Marmon or Stutz, and fret and burnish it to an immaculate, working shine...
...cupped to the inner symphony of psychosomatic complaints: "Alas, alas, I am losing my eyesight (sad symptom of bile) by stooping over this flat table." In the country, a cow lowing in pasture could ruin his night's sleep. London was all "noise, unwholesomeness, dirt and fret." In Germany, all coffee resembled a "physic." Paris proved a "jump into the red-sea of mud," where "I have had a horrible time...
...them fret as they try to forget...