Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raises the old specter of U.S. intervention, which scares the Latinos more than Communism -even after a generation of U.S. good will, loans and trade agreements. Said a pro-U.S. South American President: "Nonintervention is essential to continental solidarity." The intervention of Moscow-controlled Communism apparently does not bother them yet. Even such neighbors of Guatemala as El Salvador and Honduras, while turning up evidences of Communist infiltration, are reluctant to step forward with accusations...
...fact that he couldn't ski did not bother Vag too much, because although it snowed everyday, most of the people said the conditions were not right. Instead they sat around in the hotel and played rhumba, samba, canasta, and bridge and drank considerable. Before long any beginner could talk skiing with the best by slipping in an occasional "christy" or "slalom...
...visit: "Oh, it was shake hands, shake, shake, shake-and I wouldn't even know the people now. My, my, it was rush here, rush there, rush every other place-but I suppose I shouldn't say that because those people did go to so much bother to make my visit pleasant." A sizable audience gathered at Gimbels to hear Grandma talk about painting. Instead, she told them in detail how she made preserves, and concluded her talk by opening her handbag and showing a few samples. No one could possibly have invented an old lady more refreshing...
...thought was an unreasonable request. It had asked Bulova, along with other U.S. watch companies, to turn over hundreds of documents concerning their business, and had set a deadline for last week. Said Arde Bulova: "I wanted to answer them very briefly and simply: 'Don't bother me.' But our attorneys told me we had to comply with the subpoena...
...Eavesdropping. Thus acquainted with U.S. firmness, Sir Winston did not even bother to bring up his private dream of flying off to Moscow alone for a face-to-face meeting with Premier Malenkov-a meeting "at the summit." Instead, the discussion shifted to a specific subject: Russia's sudden assent to a Big Four Foreign Ministers' meeting on Germany and Austria. The British hoped for a quick Western acceptance and a quick note to Moscow, so the outside world would not get the notion that this was the only reason for the Bermuda get-together. Early January...