Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World Almanac, sometimes even in a phone book." "Some of our teachers," says Executive Director Sherman Voorhees of the Pittsburgh chamber, "are delinquent." Instead of learning how to use the encyclopedia, "children are being taught the easy way out." Adds a Pittsburgh businessman: "If teachers insist that their students bother companies for information, why don't they have the courtesy to see that they do it right? If they'd tell the children how to write proper letters, we'd be happy...
...tradesmen with time-tested aplomb. Softspoken, but firm, the magazine urges its members to live up to standard--warning its subscribers, for example, not to use summer fluids with winter creeping on. A long dissertation with much good advice is entitled "Embalming Dropsical Bodies" (we shan't bother to discuss it here...
Thermos bottles have an innocent appearance, so that few users will bother to examine it. Coke bottles can be filled with appropriately colored liquors and provide safe passage...
...explaining his proposal of last May, Vellucci said that Dr. Pusey was too busy looking for a way to raise $100 million and City Manager Curry was too busy trying to keep the tax rate down to bother much about the parking problem. "My proposal was the only way to call the situation to their attention," he said...
...Coldstream Guards; Clarissa, 17, student at the Sorbonne; Antonia, 9. No stuffed shirt, he has an impressive reputation for ability to short-circuit gobbledygook, is a good mixer, relishes a chance to live in Washington, where he feels the steamy summer climate will be no great bother because, as he hears it: "You go from one air-conditioned room to another." Said he on his arrival: "If the prospects of peace and justice are to be good, it will depend on the extent" to which the United States and Britain "harmonize" their policies...