Word: frets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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carols Robert Frost. "One Hundred is just around the corner," is Herbert Hoover's salutation, and Sir Winston, wintering in London, sends us "felicitations on nine decades of print, fret, toil, and smears...
...Lima, Peru, where low-hanging clouds are a constant fret to pilots, the skies were encouragingly clear when a Boeing 707 flight of Brazil's Varig Airlines approached from Rio de Janeiro. Carrying a crew of 17 and 80 passengers, it swung out over the ocean, circling to lose altitude for landing, blinked its landing lights in a traditional "all's well" greeting to a passing Air France jet. Minutes later it smashed into the 2,400-ft. Las Cruces hill and burst into flames. All were killed, including 18 Americans. For Varig the crash marred an enviable...
...very happy on less than four jets"), and gassed up at a small field. Then it was off across the ocean, with her navigator, a 49-year-old spinster, charting the route. Eleven hours and 1,828 miles later, the Beechcraft buzzed into Shannon. No reason to fret, said Mrs. Hart, who learned to fly at 53 -after all, she had done it all before nine years...
...Major Philip Harper, 37, adviser to a Vietnamese Ranger battalion. Father: Brigadier General fret.) Neal Harper, formerly deputy chief of the Army Dental Corps...
...less understood, by the public he serves. Dillon is a pragmatic, liberal Republican who holds down one of the most sensitive jobs in a Democratic Administration (not all Republicans can forgive him that). He can coldly and calmly approve a $6 billion deficit for the nation; he can also fret over the health of the honey locust trees near his home. Steeled in Wall Street's rough and tumble, Dillon preserves a diffident professorial manner, and revels in tastes that few of his countrymen share: vintage wines. Savile Row suits (from Henry Poole & Co.). fine paintings and finer porcelain...