Word: worrier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this time, Miss Clapp had a good idea of what was up. Over brook trout and a bottle of wine at the Ritz-Carlton, Weeks began to ask questions. "Do you sleep well?" he wanted to know. Miss Clapp answered that she did, she was not a worrier...
Like most successful coaches, Adolph Rupp is a painstaking worrier. Although he has recently written a book, Championship Basketball (Prentice-Hall; $3) cautioning against overworking players, he works his own hard. He feeds them vitamin pills, keeps weight charts, advocates squeezing a small rubber ball to develop arm and finger muscles. "There are no secrets in the game," he says with a straight face...
...year-old Mayor Bowron, a chronic worrier, this has merely meant more problems to worry about, e.g., how to get more houses, more schools, more water, more express highways. Says he of his sprawling city's increasing bigness: "I hated to see it come, but here...
Princess Elizabeth and Philip got an official worrier to take care of the grocery bills & so on. Appointed household controller and treasurer: Lieut. General Sir Frederick A. M. Browning, wartime Chief of Staff of the South East Asia Command, husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier...
Worried. El Khoury is a natural worrier. In the fall of 1944 he had plenty of troubles-his wife's illness, his scapegrace son's escapades, his efforts to get rid of the French (who had jailed him for opposing them...