Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubted that the Giants would be the eighth was careful not to talk out loud. Even a pinch-hit homer by the Indians' veteran castoff, Hank Majeski, did not break the spell. Winning the fourth game, 7-4, was so simple that Leo Durocher did not even bother to call on Dusty Rhodes...
...working efficiency is reduced. After 15 minutes to an hour at approximately 18,000 ft., nearly all (unless acclimatized like Alpinists) lose consciousness. But before a man does so, he may have strange delusions. Classic example: a reconnaissance pilot in the western Pacific in World War II refused to bother with oxygen and thought he was taking magnificently daring pictures of enemy positions. It turned out that instead he had urinated into his camera. Says General Armstrong, soberly: "A man is not himself when he is suffering from oxygen lack, even when he believes...
...outcome did not seem to bother Fleming very much. He planned an appeal "to clear my name," but, relieved by the light sentence, he happily made plans for his civilian future. After a trip to California, he said, "I intend to go into a business I've been interested in for 20 years-the marine sporting-supply business. Motorboating is my hobby...
Other British papers chimed in with criticism of Clem Attlee's comments on China (TIME, Aug. 23 et seq.). But the criticism, said Attlee, "does not surprise or bother...
Such a prospect did not bother Nehru. The pledge of good will was the thing, he insisted. "Even though there may be some evil behind it, saying the right thing and trying to act up to it will gradually do away with that evil in the mind," explained the Prime Minister. To push his Five Principles, Nehru will soon take off for Peking to see Mao Tse-tung. On his way, he will display his nonaggression samples to Burma's Prime Minister U Nu in Rangoon, also stop in Hanoi (the Communist Viet Minh will be installed there...