Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delay, the Communists could also take military advantage of the free man's own virtues-his reluctance to squander life unnecessarily if there is a chance of peace, his sense of honest dealing which keeps him from waging war while talking peace. No such inhibitions bother the iron men of Communism...
...community. Not only is this reflected by the apathy in student organizations, but in the devil-may-care attitude to the honor system. Bard has parietal rules drawn up by the students themselves, and an honor system, but as one student described it, "As long as we don't bother anyone else, we don't pay too much attention to the rules...
Second Nile. Ley does not bother with dams across ordinary rivers; he picks the Congo, .which drains much of Africa's rain forest through a steep-sided valley near its mouth. A dam at this point, says Ley, would form a lake big enough to cover California, Nevada and Oregon. The water would flow northward to fill an even bigger lake (the Chad Sea) in the Sahara, and eventually drain into the Mediterranean. The lakes would presumably improve the climate of much of Africa, and boats would reach the continent's heart through the "second Nile...
...rates from 51? to 44? a line, v. the Herald-Traveler's 44.88? and the Globe's flat 55?. The Herald-Traveler still had twice as much linage as the Post in the first quarter, and the Post was still steadily losing money. But that did not bother Publisher Fox. He could keep right on losing money, and pouring cash into the Post from his oil, gas and other properties, including a bank that he bought in January. Said Fox confidently: "One of the papers now in Boston will not be here on Christmas...
Leighton added that the faculty does not want to bother with attendance...