Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Knocking Is No Bother...
...appears that the Hollywood producers have really slipped in offering the public (including teenagers) such a degenerate movie as Don't Bother to Knock [TIME, Aug 11]. Even from the producer's point of view, the movie can have a bad effect-it may make patrons think twice before hiring a babysitter while they go to the movies...
...Central Intelligence Agency all insisted that the report be classified as secret, because its contents might give aid & comfort to Soviet propaganda in the Middle East. In June, after Senator John Sparkman's Small Business Committee demanded the report's release, Harry Truman didn't even bother to reply. He had already suppressed it for what he called the good of the nation. But after the Democratic Convention, when Sparkman, now the vice-presidential nominee, asked again, Harry Truman changed his mind. Last week, for the good of the party, he took the wraps off the document...
...December while serving in the Army. And six times during those nine years Louis left the house long enough to make an inconspicuous trip to a local barbershop. (In between visits to the barber, Louis trimmed his own hair with a cutting comb.) One thing he didn't bother to do, however, was register for the draft. Constance Patton, an ardent believer in astrology, never felt the stars were quite right for this step...
...movie had to buck Manhattan's hottest July on record, a barrage of bad reviews, the Democratic convention on radio & TV. and the summer box-office slump. But Don't Bother to Knock (20th Century-Fox), reported Variety, reaped a "sock $26,000" its first week, then kept on "holding in fine fashion...