Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think you ought to plan something smaller?' No, no, they didn't say anything like that. They said, 'This program is all right-but we won't provide the money to put it over! . . .' They just said, 'Cut it-and don't bother us with details.' I wish I had the whole outfit right here before me now ... If I have to call a special Turnip Day session** every day from now until the first of January, we're going to get this thing done and it's going...
Apparently the British did not consider Hilaly a strong enough man to bother trying to save. Britain's critics in the Middle East, who are numerous and noisy, saw it another way: once again Britain was foolishly letting down a friend, and inviting a Mossadegh kind of successor...
...Collège (founded in 1530 by François I) is something like the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton: its members do not have to bother with students or lectures; they get paid (about $5,000 a year) to sit and think. This Merleau-Ponty is eminently well qualified to do. A shy, retiring type, less noticed than his flashier school chum, he has been writing heavy technical works on philosophy ( The Structure of Behavior, The Phenomenology of Perception). In the existentialist cafés, Merleau-Ponty's appointment was greeted with dismay, "Ça alors," protested...
Variations on a Theme. If Traven had run perfectly true to this type, his place in literature would be so low that no one would bother for a moment about his identity. He has excited interest precisely because he has played such impressive variations on his class-struggle theme. In The Death Ship (probably his best novel), his seascape of enslaved stokers struggling to keep a leaking tub afloat was drawn so well that it inflamed the reader's heart regardless of his politics. Similarly, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre sounded the rousing bell note of treasure-hunting...
...military training didn't bother Billy too much ("Drill, drill, a little more drill. Then drill, and lastly drill. Between drills we drill . . ."), and the discipline was generally not too severe. In battle, Billy proved his salt. He did not have the dash and gallantry of Author Wiley's Johnny Reb. but sometimes he could pull up his coat collar and walk into a hail of bullets "the same as I would go through a storm of hail and wind." He did not go looking for trouble. "The diferance between dyeing today and tomorrow is not much," wrote...