Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bother to aim your guns because it won't do any good; just blaze away" was the order given to British soldiers during the Revolutionary War, asserted Charles T. Haven in the Upper Common Room of the Union last night...
...When a young Swiss neurologist from the University of Berne tried to trick him into making mistakes, he growled: "I answer no doubters. Bother the asses...
...also do not like to be dictated to, again asked for the closing of the British consulate in Leningrad. "Under protest" Britain acceded, thereby shutting off the only source of British visas for all except diplomats, who can get them from the British Embassy in Moscow. This did not bother the Soviet Government which is quite ready to make a diplomat out of any citizen it cares to send abroad...
...Attorney General Cummings and other Administration Right-wingers the Jackson appointment was a notable victory. Mr. Cummings has never seen eye to eye with his able young subordinate on the subject of trust busting. Indeed, Bob Jackson once threatened to resign but the Attorney General told him not to bother since he would probably resign himself to return to private practice. In his new capacity Bob Jackson will be so busy defending the Government that he will have little time to attack monopolies and less to build himself up as a Democratic candidate for Governor of New York State. Consensus...
Indifference was Rogers altitude, though. "It didn't bother me at all," be said. "I just sat down to a good night's study...