Word: bother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maryland may not have any orange trees, but it doesn't have many snow drifts, either, and teams like Navy and Maryland scarcely bother to go indoors in wintertime. When you consider that lacrosse down there has the ideological significance of football at Michigan, that little toddlers play lacrosse in kindergarten practically, you can see what Coach Bruce Munro's team is up against...
White's idea costs money. Last week, he reported a $30,000 deficit to his trustees. It didn't seem to bother him. "That's as it should be," he beamed. "A school of this sort should have deficit activities. Artist-teachers demand, rightfully, artists' fees, which most students cannot afford. What's the solution? Endowment. We want five million dollars...
...revenge had Henry Fonda, John Carradine, gorgeous technicolor and a fast-moving story. None of these were available this year, apparently, and the present low-budget production is a savorless blending of improbable dialogue, a yawn-provoking plot, and poor acting. One member of the cast didn't even bother to learn his lines. He must have sensed that it wouldn't make much difference...
...Dialectical Murder." That was too much for Strand. "Why," he demanded, "should a chemist bother to stir up such a controversy in the field of genetics? I can tell you. It is because he goes right down the party line without any noticeable deviation, and is an active protagonist...
...bells didn't bother the Aggies. They played the slow, deliberate, agonizing brand of basketball for which they are famous, and for which fast-breaking St. Louis had no antidote. On the St. Louis bench, Coach Ed Hickey gave an imitation of a man fighting off bees as the score went against him, furiously diagrammed plays on the floor with chalk during time-outs. On the Aggie bench, Coach Hank Iba said reassuringly to his men: "Take your time. Take your time...