Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mishandling began at the start. Though the film, shot 17 months ago, had long since been cleared for security, foreign newsmen were banned from the briefing. When protests poured in, particularly from British and Canadian correspondents, the decision was reversed. (Russia's Tass did not even bother to send a man to the briefing, and" no other Iron Curtain newsmen were spotted...
Chill mists hung low over besieged Dienbienphu, and gecko lizards croaked in the night. From the hills, Communist General Giap's loudspeaker blared at the defenders in Vietnamese, French, Arabic and German: "Surrender or die." The 15,000 French Union defenders did not bother to reply. But back at headquarters in Hanoi there was less of an air of silent defiance. "If Giap will pay the price of at least 15,000 dead," said a top Vietnamese official, "he can probably have Dienbienphu." Said a Frenchman: "Before the battle I gave Giap a 20% chance to take the place...
...professional courtesy whereby doctors treat each other and their families free has boomeranged and hurt the health of all concerned, Seattle's Dr. Merrill Shaw told the American Academy of General Practice. Physicians try not to bother their colleagues for minor ills or regular examinations, and often wait until it is too late. "If I had had a doctor who kept regular watch of me . . . my illness would have been detected long before I found it myself," he said. Dr. Shaw's plea had to be read in his absence: he is dying of cancer...
...middle and rich peasants are afraid to expose their wealth, fearing that somebody may come along to borrow from them without returning the loans-"like tigers borrowing pigs." The report quoted Middle Peasant Ho Yao-hsiang: "Why bother to make production such a success? It will be sufficient if you grow enough to keep yourself fed. Once you make a success of your production, your staircase will be leveled by the footsteps of visitors." Others were afraid of being accused of exploitation. "Because Poor Peasant Kan Yao-ching once lent grain to Kan Yung-lin, the masses wanted to promote...
...became interested in psychology because "I recognized myself as a brilliant child." In his teens Hewitt claims to have mastered engineering, once wrote a paper for a state engineering society that was "so complicated that no more than three men in the room understood it." It did not really bother him that his father had showed so little interest in sending him to college. "The thought," says he, "of taking courses in subjects in which I was already recognized as one of the nation's leading authorities was ridiculous...