Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free-wheeling stagecoach days of the 1850s, Dallas won fame as a lively center of the buffalo-hide trade. But last week, the city played host to 5,000 department-store and specialty-shop buyers who were too busy to bother with Dallas' frontier past. They came to see the up-to the-minute fall styles of the city's bustling fashion industry, eighth largest...
Cage & Chickadee. The chemist is kidnaped by Russian agents even before the big food companies steal his Nutro formula, and turn it to a fast buck with Piksnak ("why bother with that old-fashioned picnic lunch-basket") and Sportnutrine ("attached to the belt . . . in a handy metal kit") and Quik-Meal ("the two-second lunch for America's busiest executives...
...didn't bother to take out a city permit (which would have called for inspection of the job) or to bring timber to shore up his shaft. He just ripped up a patch of concrete flooring near the garage's main support pillar and began to dig. At 18 feet, as he was trying to dislodge a big rock, a cave-in buried him up to the waist in loose sand and gravel. When he tried to wriggle out he discovered that he was trapped; his right leg was doubled beneath him and pinned immovably by the boulder...
...growing international tension? No, Mr. Truman answered. The defense budget next year, he went on, will be smaller than this year's $14.2 billion and the Administration will keep on making economy cuts in the armed services where it can. It didn't seem to bother the President that his top military men were crying for more money, not less-or that Chairman Omar Bradley of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told a congressional committee last week that things had got worse in recent months. In fact, the President made it clear that he was not alarmed...
...stand against Hitler and consequently lost his job at the Dresden Opera, was the fact that in Cincinnati he found "community expression in the best sense of the word. Boys & girls, old ones and young ones, even the little kids, all join together and they don't bother about the races. Yah," says Fritz Busch, "it is great...