Word: bother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge. She remembered the incidents well because she herself, at the age of 13, had helped to deliver one of the babies on the family's windswept farm in Corangie. Next day she had asked her mother whether she should bathe the child. "You needn't bother," Audley Bennet told her daughter wearily. "Dad drowned...
Conway is populated with every type of barrel-slat boarder. Social skiers, snow bunnies, vacationers seeking their first contact with winter's great outdoors, pros, and even a few mouth-skiers who don't bother to bring skis, abound...
...comes to Harvard has heard a lot about the General Education program. Perhaps he believes that it will give him the answers to all the vague and abstruse problems that bother him. Perhaps he thinks that, by some miracle, it will turn him into a well-rounded and omniscient man, or, perhaps preferably into a man who can talk well at cocktail parties. It won't. For one thing, there is no General Education at Harvard today; there is just a collection of courses with which the Committee is experimenting, using current Harvard students as voluntary guinea pigs. For another...
Nobody but Americans. From Calcutta to Rangoon they had to stop at every good-sized rice paddy-George had picked up "Delhi belly." In Hanoi, a Frenchman told them not to bother about showing their passports, everybody knew "nobody but Americans would do a damn fool thing like this." They sat out a typhoon in Hong Kong, a binge and hangover at Amoy. Flying in loose formation, they worked out a bit of dialogue to pass the time on their long hops. Cliff: "We're lost, but we're making good time." George: "We're broke...
Copley painted Paul Revere sitting in shirtsleeves at a workbench, but he would never have portrayed a common stevedore. He married into society, and the Boston Tea Party came as a shock and a bother. In 1774, Copley sailed out of trouble to England, leaving behind a harshly energetic and thoroughly credible portrait gallery of such political rebels as Samuel Adams and Thomas Mifflin...