Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sometimes Higgins did not bother to wait for the high school crop. Once, he spotted a boy selling newspapers on the corner and, after a talk with him, sent him off to college and pharmacy school. Another time, he met a girl who lived in a hut by the railroad tracks. Within a short while, she was in college, too. In those days, Higgins never kept track of the money he spent. It was not until 1946 that he organized his hobby into a foundation...
...Jackson, unopposed, received 316,000 votes, while Cain, with two opponents, got 250,000 votes. But the votes of his two opponents added to his would give Cain 335,000 votes. There were many explanations of Cain's heavy vote: with Jackson unopposed, many Democrats just didn't bother to vote, labor openly suggested that Democrats vote for one of Cain's Republican opponents, and some Democrats say they voted for Cain, believing him the easiest to beat in November...
...guilt-ridden Catholic who keeps pecking away at the problem of personal salvation. Prisoner of Grace (though Gary says it wasn't) might have been written as an answer to Greene's End of the Affair. Personal salvation, Gary would say, is too selfish a business to bother about: his heroine is more concerned with her two dependent men than with her own rescue. Moral law? Justice? As far as human beings should concern themselves, "the world consists entirely of exceptions...
...Spanish Civil War did not bother him. Father Jesus stayed behind when all the other priests fled, and the Loyalists did not molest him. After the war, when a returning priest accused him of fraternizing, Father Jesus retorted: "I merely stuck to my job as priest and scientist. You who flew away were yellow...
Tobin, Dever, Dever's brother, his chauffer, his secretary, and a CRIMSON reporter all huffed down the street to the Governor's big, shiny Cadillac. Tobin threw open the rear door, and said, "Step in Governor." But Dever replied, "Oh no, that's all right. Don't bother." Tobin's face turned white, and he blustered out, "But Governor aren't you coming to the Young Democrats meeting?" He imagined all his efforts to get the Governor out to Harvard rudely shattered. "You can't go now, we've been waiting for you at Littauer . . ." "But I always...