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Word: fritter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...seminar. "This is one of the most surprising and overlooked facts in America today . . . Churches possess a larger and wider allegiance . . . than ever before," but crime, alcoholism, divorce and sexual laxity are on the alarming increase. "Either there will be a moral renewal or [religion's gains] will fritter out into futility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...droll, Maupassant-like tale about a young married woman and her lover, who fritter away the few hours they have together in bickering and jealous suspicion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 15, 1953 | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

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