Word: annoyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Evening News, which has the world's largest evening newspaper circulation. Other London papers have tried to ape his column, but usually give up for lack of a Jones to write it. But Jimmy, who is 44, regards it as just a pleasant routine chore, and to the annoy ance of his wife, a onetime reporter, has no higher ambition...
...counted out. Champion Reshevsky never plays chess between tournaments; during them, however, he keeps his mind on chess night & day. His wife, who is just learning the game (out of a book; he won't teach her), says that she has to be very careful not to annoy him during this difficult period. But, she adds: "Sam is really very nice. I don't see how the wives of some of those irritable chess players stand...
...Annoy an Oyster. Back in 1890 Mikimoto heard a Japanese zoologist lecture on the possibility of cultivating pearls. Why not implant an irritant like a grain of sand in a baby oyster, see if the oyster would coat it with layers of nacre, and thus form a pearl? Mikimoto decided...
Cried Kentucky's 58-year-old Senator Alben Barkley: "That does not annoy me in the slightest. . . . Mr. Walker is by no means a doddering...
...American Communists have not caught on to this fact; they lack originality and realism. If you take pepper, they sneeze. If you have indigestion, they belch. They annoy our trade unions more than they annoy our employers...