Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cherry Hills. Before one round, he amiably tried some practice shots for the benefit of the photographers. Several cameramen plunked down in the grass a few feet in front of the President so that he would be shooting directly over their heads and one called out: "Will I bother you here, sir?" Ike eyed the green, then the photographer, and chuckled: "No, but you might get bothered yourself...
...book, The Green and Red Planet (University of New Mexico Press; $4), Dr. Strughold raises the question with restraint. Mercury, says he, is far too hot to bother with. From Jupiter to Pluto, the other planets are frozen stiff. Only Mars and Venus could support life. But the little that astronomers can see suggests that the Venusian atmosphere has neither oxygen nor water. Mars alone is worth investigating...
...meant much money to me, but the little I have made has been a great help. As most of you know, my eyesight is such that I cannot do other work which would pay me more. If I were a strong man, with normal vision . . . I would not bother you again about voting for me. But we all must accept things as they are and do the best...
Charles Thollet, a hardware dealer of Port-Lyautey, French Morocco, knows only a little English, but that did not bother him when he planned a trip through the U.S. He only looked up some addresses, and sent off a few letters beginning "Estimata Sinjoro." Last week the "Dear Sirs" of the U.S. were entertaining him and his wife royally. The language they used: Esperanto...
...nothing unusual about his year-round sailing compulsion. To Corny Shields, as to most other sailors, the sport is the thing, no matter what hardship is involved. Hardship? "Why," says Corny, "I keep so warm sailing that little dinghy that most of the time I don't even bother to wear winter underwear...