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Word: bother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning the auto was gone again and there was a smile on the face of Officer Shamus Finnegan. "If they're going to be that way about parking," groaned Bottle, "I shan't bother to pick it up until I have occasion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apathy Begins at Home and Extends to Elberry Garage | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Such anachronisms did not bother antitrust's busy boss, Assistant Attorney General Herbert A. Bergson. His department had $3,400,000 given by the last Congress, more money than it had ever had. With it, Bergson predicted last week that he would outbust Trustbuster Teddy Roosevelt, who had gone after Du Pont in 1907. Said Bergson: "We have a lot more cases in the mill than they had then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: More in the Mill | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Bartel J. Jonkman (pronounced Yonkman) was defeated in the week's biggest upset. A bitter-end G.O.P. isolationist who liked to refer to ERP as "Burp," Jonkman had always received most of the Dutch vote in the fifth district's "Little Netherlands." This year he did not bother to do much campaigning. His opponent, Gerald R. Ford Jr., 35, did. A Grand Rapids lawyer and onetime University of Michigan football star, Ford had hundreds of volunteers pushing doorbells for him, time & again dared Jonkman to debate his foreign-policy stand. Jonkman refused. Back-slapping "Jerry" Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: In the Semi-Finals | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...season came to a disastrous ending at Princeton when Harvard, in the traditional triangular meet, knuckled under to the Bulldog 18 to 33 and to the Tiger 16 to 38. Mikkola didn't bother to send then team to the annual 1C4-A championships at New York's Van Courtland Park. This year he is hoping for better things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mikkova Dusts Off Welcome Mat For Freshmen Harriers | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

Last week her column reappeared with the byline shortened from "Austine Cassini" to just plain "Austine." As the Times-Herald did not bother to explain, Austine ("Bootsie") Cassini had married William Randolph Hearst Jr.-and she did not think she should trade on his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: These Charming People | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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