Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delicate Skill. An instrument shop in those days had no automatic machine tools, no electronic measuring devices, almost no electricity. Such lacks did not bother Kramer, who made many of his own tools with his forge, lathe and grindstone. Slowly, by sheer craftsmanship, he turned out delicate devices (bolometers, pyrheliometers, etc.) to keep track of the sun's radiation, and he made them so perfectly that they are still in use all over the world...
Perhaps one out of every ten in the U.S. population carries a few amoebae in his bowels for most of his life, and they never bother him. So doctors did not think it significant when Harry J. Myer, 51, a Singer worker from Grovertown, who died last November of a "liver abscess," was found to have had amoebiasis. But then technicians of the South Bend Medical Foundation, who make the pathology tests for most of the city's doctors, began to find amoeba in more and more stool samples. They reported this to Health Officer F. R. Nicholas Carter...
...receipt for 45? that Ford paid him in 1894, a receipted bill for four pounds of trout (price 72?) delivered in 1906, the bill for the gasoline for his first car, letters from Presidents and crowned heads, and thousands of letters that Ford did not even bother to open-some containing thousands of dollars. There were the first rough sketches of cars and of assembly plants, hundreds of "jotbooks" into which Ford noted everything that interested him -new ideas, new words (garrulous, adulation, ambrosia), and the sly maxims he coined ("A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth...
...incident illustrates how little white Americans generally know about their colored fellow citizens. Negroes, in the phrase of the sociologists, have "high social visibility." But their lives are in effect invisible to most Americans, who rarely bother to look behind the Color Curtain at the Negroes' homes, their places of work or worship, or their spirit. There is, as a matter of fact, some news about Negro golfing...
...measuring gradients and corners. German drivers even got out of their cars to hand-test road surfaces. Leaving little to chance, the Germans saturated the entry lists with 23 Porsches, precision-built little speedsters made up largely of Volkswagen components. Britons, noting the Germans at work, did not even bother to make trial runs. Said one Jaguar driver: "It's a sporting event, not a scientific test. Where's the sport if you remove the unexpected...