Word: frets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...News of the World, and the great worry is that the Times will itself adopt what the paper just four months ago described as "the breathless, grubby vision of the world inherent in the Murdoch style." Tongue tucked in cheek, Daily Mirror Columnist Keith Waterhouse told readers not to fret. "The girls," he wrote, "will appear in the Times Literary Supplement wearing fishnet stockings and mortarboard...
Until then, he has little to fret about -save perhaps an inability to beat his teammates at computer games. Admits the Boss: "They say I've got the fastest hands in hockey, but you'd never know that from the way I play Space Invaders." Nobody's perfect. -ByBJ. Phillips...
...judges (of more than 600) stepped out of their robes, compared with eight in the '60s and seven in the decade before that. The trend has brought warnings from the legal establishment that the nation's treasured federal bench is in danger of losing its luster. Observers fret not only about the increased number of departures but also about the erosion of morale among those who remain. An equally distressing, although incalculable effect is the possible decrease of top candidates for judicial openings...
...concerned, but not worried. Clearly not as tightly wound as many other athletes, Buckley doesn't get extremely excited. He doesn't worry. He wants to win one game at a time. He obviously wants to win the League, and especially The Game, very badly, but he doesn't fret. He will confess only to his anxiety about getting enough Yale tickets for his large (five brothers and sisters) family and friends from Marblehead...
...handle the economy has dropped from an impressive 75% to 66%, and his perceived competency in foreign affairs has slipped from 72% to 63%. The Californian still worries voters on a basic level: 54% of those surveyed feel that he often does not get his facts straight, and 48% fret that he may be "trigger happy...