Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carried abroad in U.S. ships. He has worked ably to improve air service to the Northwest, business opportunities for Washington pulp mills, the catch for the salmon fishermen. Warren Magnuson's name is on no momentous legislation of the last twelve years, but this omission does not bother him. As Maggie sees it, one of his values is this: "The State of Washington would have to wait about twelve years to get themselves in the same position of seniority with...
...geographer who worked for the American Geographical Society before she joined TIME in 1953, crammed for three months. "My biggest problems," she said, "were to reconcile the different viewpoints of historians and to locate ancient boundaries. The Romans, bless them, very carefully recorded theirs; the Moslems didn't bother...
...Socialism," they assert, echoing a saying dear to Hugh Gaitskell, "is about equality" and equality is a state "in which people, no longer divided by barriers of privilege, can be conscious of their common humanity." Apparently content with this vague definition of Socialism's goal, the theorists never bother to define equality at all but concentrate instead on denouncing what they consider the two chief causes of inequality in Britain-unequal educational advantages and unequal distribution of wealth. Towards Equality makes a routine blast at Britain's exclusive public schools (which produced some of Labor...
According to Edmund M. Burke, Director of Civil Defense for Cambridge, it will just be "Operation Alert for 1956." This is a test exercise that will send public officials all over the state scurrying for cover, but which needn't bother Summer School students...
...search for a railroad route through the Southwest ended in disaster because he would not listen to men who knew better than he did the dangers of midwinter in the mountains. He was the first man nom inated for the presidency by a Republican convention, but he did not bother to campaign actively, and he lost to James Buchanan in 1856. His business ventures were disastrous. Toward the end (which came in 1890), only the writing of Jessie Frémont, one of history's sturdiest examples of the devoted wife, kept the two from want...