Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rain fell most of the match, but failed to bother the golfers enough to cut into scores. Weather permitting, the Crimson will play Amherst tomorrow afternoon at The Orchards, South Hadley...
...abolished. Just unnecessary nonsense, Blue Cape's educators explain. Doesn't any Blue Caper ever kill another? Frut asks. Why should he? ask the educators. Is it reasonable for a lizard to kill a fellow lizard? Born reasonable, Blue Capers pool their supplies and their work, rarely bother much with personal names since any Blue Caper is by nature and desire much like any other Blue Caper. When Frut begins shuffling into his mating dance for a female Blue Caper, she says, "You don't have to go through all that ... I accept...
...broad daylight with a service .45, buried him in a quarry, jauntily decorated the grave with a rusty antifreeze tin, and headed west with Diane in his victim's shiny, red and black 1953 Plymouth hardtop. He told the girl he felt no remorse. "It don't bother me if I don't know the people," he said gravely. "There is no such thing as conscience. It's just a feeling of fear that people have." Before an Iowa policeman arrested them three days later, Fred had shot four more people in cold blood, and held...
...score: it demands the coloratura style throughout. The men as well as the women are called upon for whirlwind runs, tumbling arpeggios and fluttering trills. Today's singers (except for a few sopranos with eccentric larynxes) consider coloratura about as easy as tightrope walking, and few bother to take the necessary strenuous training...
...glory of these intellectuals, Viereck writes, was their early opposition to fascism, while the shame is their long collaboration with communism. The book stresses the similarity between the two totalitarian systems--the word "communazi" is, I am afraid, Viereck's way of emphasizing this--but does not bother to explain why one system was accepted and the other fought. Instead by means of some dialogues with a ludicrous stereotype named Gaylord Babbitt, Viereck creates a phony example of a deluded intellectual, and proceeds to rip into his artistic, economic, and political beliefs...