Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neighbors this was nonsense. He would not come for "many-times-many-years." But meanwhile the food and skins were there and might as well be used. All winter long the neighbors did not bother to hunt; instead they cadged food from the believers, remarking: "If He is coming tomorrow, you surely have food...
...Gene Sarazen, still going strong after 20 years of big-time golf, turned in 297 (for four rounds), ten strokes better than Jones's card but 17 behind Craig Wood's winning score. Walter Hagen and Francis Ouimet, both nearing 50 and too busy chasing business to bother chasing balls, withdrew after the first round. Ouimet had chalked up 82, Hagen 87, his highest score in nearly 30 years of professional play...
...Better still, the tames they play (Panama, Muskrat Ramble, Sugar, That's A'Plenty), are all products of the twenties, and therefore the correct vehicle for the unique Chicago style. Sure, if you want, they'll play Frenesi for you (with a few dirty looks thrown in), but why bother with that? It's not their kind of music. You'll see what I mean when you hear them get together or a last chorus of, say, Muskrat Ramble with everybody in there driving for all he's worth. It's like a photo finish at Suffolk Downs...
...criticism. Editorialized the conservative New York Times: "TNEC . . . proposes to stimulate private enterprise by adopting . . . more . . . Federal controls that have already done so much to burden . . . new enterprise." Said New Dealers Leon Henderson and Isador Lubin, who served on the committee but were too busy with defense work to bother with the final recommendations: "Surely it should be possible, with all this great wealth of evidence ... to offer a concrete program geared to the needs of our time...
...students on a practice assignment: to investigate the disappearance of Dr. Erhard Fernholz, a research chemist at the Squibb Institute in New Brunswick, N. J., who went for a walk in Princeton last December and was never seen alive again.* The students interviewed a Squibb official. He snapped: "Why bother us when you have a disappearance in your own back yard...