Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After finishing their year, youths could go on to officer candidate schools, be graduated as reserve second lieutenants. Or they could get reserve commissions through college ROTC units-which will no longer bother with basic training courses, instead will operate at a postgraduate military level...
...struggling to build up power." He emphasized the waste inherent in a dual system, e.g., duplicate hospitals, one Army and one Navy, side by side on Espiritu Santo. General Marshall also anticipated one of the main lines of the Navy's counterattack: he urged that Congress should not bother itself with details now, but should lay down the broad principle of a unified military department-the details would work themselves out by evolutionary process...
...prison on Martin Garcia Island, Juan Domingo Perón overturned the moderates who had forced his resignation and vaulted back to the balcony of Government House. Thousands of Perón-struck workers cheered: "Viva Perón! Viva labor! Viva Argentina!" Colonel Perón did not bother to reassume his old offices or even to rejoin the army. Seven days after his return, he was still Argentina's master...
Johnny recalled the informal atmosphere at the weekly Sunday afternoon jam sessions, where one could walk around with a drink in had sans the bother of officials attempting to enforce Boston's Sunday liquor laws. Everyone in jazz, even those in service stationed nearby, was sure to drop in at the Ken. PeeWee the Great came in one Sunday and stayed for a few weeks. Three or four Pepsi's flavored by the smoky atmosphere were sufficient to send Mr. Russell to dreamland, so the drummer invested in a small bell which gave with resonance when tapped by a drum...
Missouri-born Brigadier General Harry Vaughan, military aide to President Truman, is a large, uninhibited man, a veteran at draw poker. Genial and democratic to boot, Reserve Officer Vaughan is neither a finicky nor a formal dresser: in the White House he often does not bother to put on a blouse or cinch up his necktie...