Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the question of Alaska Highway fuel came up, the Dean, admittedly no oil expert, talked around a little bit, and held one conference - at which no notes were taken. He did not bother to consult the Petroleum Administrator about the alternatives, or WPB about the availability of critical materials, transportation and manpower, or the Navy about the possibility of sending oil up from Seattle by tanker through the Inside Passage. "I am not familiar with Washington situations and setups," explained the Dean. Then Dean Graham sat down and wrote a one-page memorandum recommending Canol. General Somervell okayed...
...jobs. I was trying to fly the plane, and at the same time I was trying to reassure myself . . . trying to convince myself that I did have a chance, and then telling myself it didn't make any difference anyway. . . . The idea of impending death did not bother me . . . the fear I felt seemed to be from another source...
Every Sunday afternoon, over Manhattan's city-operated radio station WNYC, Mayor Fiorello ("Lippy") LaGuardia speaks "nonpolitically" to his seven and a half million charges, exhorting them to follow him up the steep, stony path of municipal rectitude. Not many of his charges bother to listen. But on the Nov. 7 broadcast, His hen-shaped Honor extended his audience by tripping over his extended...
...There is not a single scientific work of any consequence written in the Afrikaans language. Today nearly all important works on science are being published in the United States-in English. ... If you prefer to confine your reading to Afrikaans, you needn't bother with science...
...Little Sister Nancy. Nancy "didn't bother much with the customary rules for the conduct of human beings," slept winter and summer clad in her raccoon coat...