Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murphy said, "There is usually a larger vote in the House elections than there is in the class-wide elections as the voter generally known most of the men running in his House elections, while he may know none at all in the Class elections, and will not bother to vote. The turnout for this election was as good as we expected...
...said that faculties were responsible for such situations, and that earlier administrations often failed to recognize the true place of athletics in the educational system. Students had always participated in sports, but many faculties did not bother to assume official control of athletic programs...
...respectable. The fact that the first game on record (between Latrobe, Pa. and Jeannette, Pa. in August 1895) was sponsored by the Latrobe Y.M.C.A. impressed no one. Professional football, in its early days, had the social standing of snooker pool-it might be legal, but no nice person would bother with...
...foreseen. What had looked like promising issues ("No Guns for the Huns") in the spring, turned out to be lost causes in November. In a quiet, closed-door session, the Labor M.P.s agreed overwhelmingly to back the Manila Pact, and afterward Nye did not even bother to appear in the House of Commons when it won easy approval. A few days later the second blow fell: in another private session the Labor M.P.s voted 124 to 72 to support German rearmament. When the Bevanites began their insurrection, they had come within nine votes of defeating Clem Attlee on this issue...
Colorado's brainy Republican Senator Eugene Millikin sat, hands clasped limply, looking rather glum, and listened to testimony before the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee in Washington. His bald pate was partly mantled by a neatly folded handkerchief, which Millikin did not bother to explain. But two days later, he landed in a hospital with a bad head cold...