Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customers, today's low rates and high fixed costs are forcing banks into what amounts to a chain-store operation. With thousands of clients, the banks have made this operation highly profitable with small personal loans and a host of other services they once thought too picayune to bother with...
...slackened off but still prices crept up. Since Korea, meat had jumped 10% and 15%, butter and eggs were up at least a few pennies. Coffee, which had been riding high even before Korea, had managed to jump another 6? or 9?. "Sugar, soap, flour-things you never bother to price before buying-have gone up," complained a West Los Angeles housewife...
...Hutchinson, an able Virginia lawyer nominated to the Federal Trade Commission. Hutchinson had run against Senator Harry Byrd in the 1946 primary-Byrd's first opposition in 21 years. Byrd told the Senate that he did not want Hutchinson to be an FTC commissioner; he did not bother to discuss Hutchinson's qualifications. The Senate backed up Byrd...
Stuffed in odd places around home were a full share of tarnished Navy Crosses, D.F.C.s and Air Medals from World War II. But for four years everybody in VF-781 had been too busy flying in the present to bother polishing up the past. One weekend every month 36 Naval Reserve pilots would converge on the Los Alamitos (Calif.) Naval Air Station and thunder off on maneuvers in their stubby Grumman Hellcat fighters-unanimously elated to escape from the humdrum chores of selling insurance, studying law or changing diapers. Their bashful, blond skipper, Lieut. Commander Collin Oveland...
...murdering five colonists in cold blood. By hard lawyer logic Adams forced the jury to acquit all except two, who were found guilty of manslaughter. Meanwhile, despite the side he had taken in the case, his townsmen elected him as representative to the legislature, even though he did not bother to campaign...