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...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...
...have all had enough, I believe, of those who have sneered at the warnings of men trying to drive Communists from high places . . . We have all had enough, I believe, of men who seem to feel that freedom can do nothing but fret and whine as it watches its own slow, sure death...
...Davis Cup veteran. The losses did little to shake Dick's new-found faith in his ability to win, but they did create a jinx. Drobny beat him again in the quarter-finals of the French championships, a tournament that Savitt really wanted to win. He began to fret, decided he was over-tennised, and practically stopped playing for the whole month before Wimbledon...
Most athletes fear overtraining; they worry about losing that "sharp edge" of condition. Sometimes they try to ease this phobia by judicious absences from over-strenuous practices, thus avoiding bad after effects. And the coaches fret both evils...