fretted

Instead, I fretted — how do you know when it’s time to say goodbye?

He fretted over “small checks” he got for “only” eight hours of work and once, with no money to spare, simply wrote: “Ni para el periodico.”

Yet those back in Labour HQ fretted that, from what little they gleaned, that work was inadequate.

It fretted that Europe, with its economy and infrastructure in tatters, was vulnerable both to home-grown communist parties and abroad from an expansionist Soviet Union.

And if that comes to pass, we’ll miss the days when we fretted over the price of eggs.