Word: fret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These Saturday afternoons fans are packing into the ancient concrete bowl of Archbold Stadium (cap. 39,701), the students fret about national rankings, and a battered Civil War cannon keeps up a running drumfire as it booms out each score. Syracuse is now scheduling such national powers as Notre Dame...
...field, they are finance majors (all Bs and Cs), who fret mildly because they cannot find identical twins to date-"not even unattractive ones." But on the field, they butt heads with unalloyed pleasure. Drawls Stanford Coach Jack Curtice: "Those boys could go bear hunting with a switch and come back with meat." Admits Marlin: "We get. sheer pleasure out of football-out of knocking people down. It's just plain...
...much ground, but it was so. Compared to the days when Brigadier General John J. Pershing chased Pancho Villa across northern Mexico, today's problems are nothing. The Mexicans worry about the effect of cut-rate U.S. cotton surplus sales on its worldwide markets; some U.S. mining outfits fret over Mexican taxes; the sewers of Tijuana hamper ocean bathing near San Diego. And so it goes, trailing into insignificance...
Despite the fact that they get from France more than they pay back in the form of sugar, rum, coffee and bananas, the islanders are now demanding an ever greater share of the central government's money. They complain that the minimum wages still hang below mainland standards, fret about the population surge that is adding 16,000 people a year to Martinique's current 265,000 (on 385 sq. mi.) and Guadeloupe's 250,000 (on 588 sq. mi.). A potential income source is tourism; the islands offer balmy beaches, inexpensive French champagne and perfume...
...chain was forged in the turn-of-the-century war of the copper kings, when the company used its newspapers as ironfisted, copperplated propaganda sheets in its successful fight for supremacy. In the '20s, when the company began to fret that its papers were furthering its image as a monopolist, it toned them down, tried to shape the news more by selecting than slanting or denouncing. Events harmful to Anaconda were either ignored or downplayed ; the papers even began to avoid all local controversies...