Search Details

Word: bothered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...they were required. "Once I get back to the States I'm not worried," Gallagher once told a reactionary. "All I have to do is to plead that I did those things under mental duress." Gallagher did not believe that the U.S. Government could do anything or would bother him. But Sergeant Gallagher could be wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: A Mean & Cruel Heart | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...Cleaners. In Detroit, 30 minutes after robbing his fifth cleaning establishment. Service Station Attendant Edward Szczepanski, 17, told police: "My girl has expensive tastes . . . My conscience would bother me after the holdups, and sometimes I thought I would surrender; then I'd want to take her out, and I'd hold up another cleaning store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Heads Must Be Hard. The banjo died with an era in 1929, and the sweet and versatile guitar took over and stayed with the youngsters, who never knew what real banjo beat was. During World War II, manufacturers were not allowed to make banjos; afterwards they did not bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Plinkety-Plunk | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...said Grofé. But he had no cause to worry about his amateur specialists. The motorcycle policeman took the assignment in stride ("I don't feel much different; I can handle it") and the siren man was even more blasé about his symphonic debut ("Doesn't bother me; I used to be in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Band"). Sally Herman, who does the barking, is a 25-year-old credit assistant at George Washington University Hospital. She landed the job unexpectedly by winning an audition over five real dogs. "I've never barked professionally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Of Warp & Woof | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...others retained only those in the elementary courses. The whole thing was so new in approach to studies that there was no way of telling whether Widener would be jammed beyond all capacity, whether anybody would be able to obtain the books desired, or even whether anybody would bother to return after Christmas vacation...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: 1930's First Years: Quiet Traditions and Uncivilized Eating | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

Previous | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | Next