Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example in Khrushchev's cautious but crucial struggle with the technocrat commissars, who have been demanding less interference from boards of bureaucratic directors in Moscow, more autonomy in their plants and more control over the men under them, i.e., more freedom, which in Russia can only mean less bother with the party hacks. Recently Khrushchev produced a much publicized scheme for the decentralization of Soviet industry that seemed to answer the demands of the technocrat commissars (TIME, April...
...society columns listed as guests George Gobel, Hugh (Wyatt Earp) O'Brian, Art Linkletter, even Milton Berle. Hollywood's own Bastille Day, the annual Oscar awards, is geared completely as a sponsored TV show; except for those in the running for an Oscar, few movie people bother to attend...
...Teamster President Dave Beck gabbled away to newsmen last week in his $30-a-day, two-TV suite at the Galvez Hotel in Galveston, Texas, where he was on hand to attend a meeting of the Teamsters' General Executive Board. "This whole damn business don't bother me a damn bit," he huffed, meaning the Senate investigation in which he dodged behind the Fifth Amendment 142 times in reply to questions about his handling of $320,000 in union funds (TIME, April...
Ever since Britain nationalized its health services in 1948, doctors have been happy over the fact that they do not have to bother sending and collecting bills. But they have been sharply discontented about their own pay. Of the nation's 40,000 doctors, all but 700 signed up for the National Health Service; 18,000 work full time in hospitals, more than 21,000 as family doctors. The family doctors serve patients (up to 3,500 on a single doctor's panel) for a fixed per-capita fee, paid by the state, of $2.38 a year regardless...
...popped up, and the infield fly rule was called, putting him out. The ball fell between the catcher and third baseman, and Bergantino ran for the plate, along-side the Cornell fielder, who didn't bother to tag him, thinking he could put him out by stepping on the plate. He was mistaken, and should have been charged with an error...