Word: worrywarts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall (6 ft.) and thin (146 Ibs.), like the hand of a stopwatch. His toothpick legs must be pampered; he ran seven races in two days last year and pulled a hamstring muscle. Although a chronic worrywart, Patton usually manages to control his worrying. In his crowded schedule there are special times for fretting, just as there are set times to go to classes at the University of Southern California and a set time to be home for dinner (he has a wife and two-year-old daughter). The proof of Patton's iron control under pressure...
Whether the special bills, schemes, promises and bustling in State capitals could solve the problem or not (the Army & Navy plainly thought not), the worrywart frenzy of state activity was a symptom of the nation's temper. In blunt words, voters had told their legislators-both state and national-that something must be done...
...Manhattan, worrywart Mayor LaGuardia finally let the subways turn up their lights, which had been dimmed for 18 months, giving millions of subway readers eyestrain daily. Counting his city's empty sockets, the Little Flower mourned: "We just can't get the bulbs. Our people must have patience. We have 70,000 lights and it will take some time...
Comic Jack Benny, international champion worrywart, got more to worry about. He turned producer in a big way-signed a contract with United Artists to set up Jack Benny Productions Inc., to make at least twelve $1,000,000 pictures in the next six years...