Word: bother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he found the army of General Zaragoza drawn up at Puebla, Lorencez did not even bother to maneuver for position. The Mexican priests assured him that the city hated the Juarez government more than any city in the land, and would greet his troops with flowers. Lorencez popped away briefly with his ten cannon, then ordered his men to take the fortified convent of Guadalupe...
...endure the separation; she runs away, and haunts certain Viennese coffee houses and street corners until the pianist picks her up. During their short affair her lover experiences a faint glimmer of tenderness which might end his philandering, but it doesn't register strongly enough for him to bother looking her up when he returns from a concert tour. Lisa bears his child, marries rich for his son's sake, tries to make a life for herself-but again, with her next glimpse of the pianist, she abandons everything...
...lamb coat had to be sent back ("They did not have my size; I need a much larger one"). She has stored her stove and refrigerator, but likes to ride around the Navajo reservation, where she lives, in her shiny new Kaiser. The whole business was really too much bother, says Mrs. Parrett: "No more contests...
...cure, says Billie's superintendent, "didn't bother her too much." She worked hard ("I had to wash dishes, scrub floors; I even worked in the piggery"); the 30 pounds she gained is apparently all muscle. Last week, Billie spoke with finality: "That's all over now; this is a new life...
...Ruesch and Bowman do not bother to define "middle class." Peter H. Odegard and E. Allen Helms in American Politics (Harper; 947) say, "Definitions of social and economic classes in modern society are difficult to make, nd particularly so in the United States. . . . The middle class might be defined as including those whose income is derived from salaries, commissions, or fees paid for services...