Word: fret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris, Marlene left reporters gaping as she appeared in a fawn-hued raincoat, tall black boots with giant handbag to match-and a slouch-brimmed sou'wester. Having carried that off, she later headed for the show rehearsal in wrist-to-ankle blue jeans. But no need to fret, chaps. By show time she was in uniform-a clinging, flesh-colored gown, and when she huskily intoned Lili Marlene, you could have heard a tear drop...
...less interested in diplomatic advances than in U.S. might, support the test ban? Yes, said Taylor, they did. But some Senators were still concerned lest the Joint Chiefs had come to that decision not out of conviction but under pressure from the civilians of the Kennedy Administration. That fret was expressed in an exchange between Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Taylor...
Though the world's wealthiest nation sells $4 billion a year more abroad than it buys, it still has to fret over its international finances. Now that the U.S. Government has taken three crucial steps to keep its limited supply of gold from flowing steadily abroad, the new concern is: How will these restrictions affect a delicately poised U.S. economy...
E.P.E. is a Baltimore-based operation run by Corbin Gwaltney, 41, former editor of the Johns Hopkins Magazine, who in 1950 began turning that once stodgy journal into a model of lively thought. Gwaltney had begun to fret that most alumni magazines were too parochial to cover the main story that serious college graduates care about when they cast their minds back to school: higher education's trends, troubles and triumphs. His solution: informative inserts to tap the vast readership of all alumni magazines combined...
...Morgan put it, that the market "is destined to fluctuate." Others wonder how much the demand for steel will decline should the possibility of a strike evaporate, how long customers will continue to spend so freely, and how well the 1964 cars will go over. And bankers fret about how long the dollar can maintain its integrity in world markets with the nation's balance-of-payments deficit running at a rate of $3.3 billion so far this year...