Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study unit" to take up? Why, says the guidebook, mostly the pupils themselves. But once they have made their choice, e.g., "Building Good Relationships with Our Parents" in an eighth grade social-studies class, they are in for an elaborate process. First comes "initiating the unit," i.e., discuss why bother with it?, then "developing the unit" by 1) deciding on its objectives, e.g., "to cultivate the social customs which are necessary for gracious living," 2) planning the work, e.g., "select pupil personnel for the various activities," 3) carrying out the activities, e.g., "making a list of good family shows...
...past two years pert Denise McCluggage, 30, has been giving Herald Tribune readers the brand of personalized reporting that has all but disappeared from the nation's sport sections. Few of her male colleagues would bother to bat against the Phillies' Robin Roberts to get their baseball stories. But Denny McCluggage is willing and able to tool a skittish sports car through a major race, or rocket down a mountainside in a ski meet to give her stories an expert's touch. Her bylined stories are often self-consciously worded, but they usually sparkle with a personal...
...Bother You? A few weeks after the Ellises took the first legal steps to adopt the baby privately (i.e., not through an adoption agency), Hildy's mother, Marjorie McCoy, then a nursing trainee, demanded that Hildy be taken from the Ellises and put in a Catholic institution for adoption by a Catholic family. She claimed she did not know until after she signed the adoption papers that the Ellises are Jewish (they say she knew). At no time did she say that she wanted to keep Hildy herself...
...appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Court was denied in February 1955. That June Hildy's mother appeared with two social workers at the Ellises' Brookline home and demanded the child. "Hildy was terrified," Mrs. Ellis recalls. "I said to Miss McCoy, 'Won't it bother you that she will cry for me and for her daddy tonight if you take...
...returned from his drive last week to find his garden full of policemen and his house in an uproar. "A miserable little robbery and everyone loses his head," he exclaimed. "It's indecent and ridiculous. France shows us hospitality, and this is how we repay her. We bother the police and we worry the Minister of the Interior...