Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parasites & Prosecutors. For Billie, the reformatory experience seemed the culmination of a tough-luck life. When she was born in Baltimore 33 years ago, her mother was 13, her father 15, and they didn't bother to get married until Billie was three. She began to work at six, scrubbing steps before school and minding babies after, was only 14 ("big for my age, had big breasts, big bones") when she got her first singing job in a Harlem joint at $2 a night. Her first record (Tapping the Barrel) was made with a green young band leader named...
...grew increasingly irritable and joked less & less. Eventually they grew too apathetic to bother with shaving, brushing their teeth or combing their hair. Their interest in study gradually collapsed, but they felt closely identified with their group and with the starving throughout the world. They had occasional "spells of elation, sometimes bordering on ecstasy," or were unduly depressed and discouraged. For four of the men the strain was too great: they cheated by eating extra food and were dropped from the experiment...
...Miami Beach, where bookmaking is an industry, Police Chief P. R. Short dutifully made token arrests of three bookies, released them on $500 bond, and explained carefully: "We don't intend to bother the bookies. They don't bother...
...agreed. So did Duclos. Despite the noise, the conversation was overheard by several escadrille members. One of them, Lieut. Alex Laurent, who had been wounded and decorated in Russia, came bounding up to the group, and shoved Duclos aside, saying, "You're too little, I won't bother with you." Then Laurent measured burly Maurice Thorez. "Your patriotism," he said, "was too discreet for my taste, anyhow." Thereupon he punched Thorez, who went down...
...asked, did Poland's Urzad Bezpieczenstwa (secret police) waste money planting agents in the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw? Said Griffis: "There's nothing I tell my government I wouldn't tell you. . . . Why bother paying agents to read telegrams I'll gladly show you? But if you insist on spending money that way, why not have the U.B. hire me? I have more access to what information there...