Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bother? In five years, according to the best figures available in Hong Kong, the Reds have succeeded in setting up only 14,000 cooperatives out of a targeted 800,000 for all China. Some of the reasons for the great lag, as told by a team of Communist inspectors reporting to their bosses from a small area in South China...
...missed Sleeping Beauty when the time came to read it, several years ago. "Why bother," I told my better-read friends, "I'll wait 'til they make a movie of it." In view of this literary lapse, I really enjoyed the Children's Theatre rendition, because this pixie outcropping of the growing Harvard Dramatic Club has produced a treat for the matinee crowd...
McCarthy would agree only to a statement which called Stevens an able and friendly fellow. Since this would prove nothing, the White House said not to bother with further negotiations...
...rate, this music--Perversion or no--did not seem to bother the Arabian dancer; this Queen of Shiva was more interested in sending shivas up and down the spine with her snake than in the musicians' shivarce. Besides, for all her profound Islamic symbolism, she was content to have a Hindu name...
...Alfred Steiner, of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, did not go into the question of what comes first, the fatty, artery-clogging cholesterol or the disease (TIME, Dec. i, 1952). Neither did he bother with the arguments as to just which abnormalities involving fatty substances in the blood are the more important. "Probably," he says, "all play a role in the development of arteriosclerosis." What Dr. Steiner was concerned with was the practical problem of checking the process by which the arteries harden and become closed by the thickening deposits...