Word: fretfulness
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Trained to the quarterdeck, he likes only to get jobs done; to heck with people who pause to ponder, fret or quibble. But -as one of his fellow commissioners pointed out last week-proper organization and supervision of work also has its part to play in cutting loafing and that is a management problem...
...plus side, many a factory manager has found that when women are good they are better than men. They are more painstaking as inspectors, are nimbler with their fingers, don't fret or get bored with repetitious work, are generally quicker, are particularly good in assembling small parts. Feminine dexterity acts as a speedup in many a plant where men are challenged to work harder in competition...
...move in her steel brace, she heard stove lids hurled, plates smashed, shrieks. Every so often 'Geechee would stagger in to reassure her: "Kate an' Raymond's fightin', but don't you worry." "The bacon done burnt itself up, but don't you fret." "Kate is chasin' Raymond thu the grove with a butcher knife. But you jes' lay still and don't worry." So now 'Geechee comes to see Mrs. Rawlings once a year. She is always a little drunk. She says "they ain't nothin' nobody...
...prophecies grew keener. In 1925 he saw other officers smile when he led the small Dutch Indies fleet far from its home waters-toward Malaya and Japan-to execute problems which involved many times the few ships actually in his command. "Don't fret," he would say, "the day will come when an English admiral, because of our superior knowledge of these waters, will ask us to command a combined fleet." The chief of the United Nations naval staff under Conrad Helfrich in Java this week is the Royal Navy's Rear Admiral A. S. E. Palliser...
They are inseparable from books like this, and it is idle for old South America hands to fuss & fret about them. The total picture is accurate enough-allowing for the fact that Gunther was in Latin America last winter and the tempo of changes in the Western Hemisphere is now geared to the tempo of changes in Europe. But for tabloid readability John Gunther can't be beat...