Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas river bottoms the sweet gum trees were tinged with yellow. At night, deer jumped the wire fences to nibble at the heavy-headed sorghum. The rivers ran low and clear, and yellow cats, black bass, carp and perch sailed lazily in their depths, too fat to bother with baited hooks. In northern Michigan, the bow & arrow boys, 18,000 strong, patiently honed their two-and three-bladed arrows, tentatively twanged their 5O-lb. bows, got out their brown-and-green camouflage suits, the grease paint and burnt cork for blacking their faces while stalking the wary deer...
...usually thrown away (blood, bone, hair and feathers), they might be used to stretch the world's supply of protein foods by as much as 50%. There are 23 amino acids, and Dr. McCollum has succeeded in getting only one in pure crystalline form. It does not bother him that there are 22 to go. "I expect to be still around here, working, 30 years from now," he says...
Gambit: How annoying. I told her not to bother me. (takes receiver). Hello...
Gambit: How annoying. I told her not to bother me. (takes receiver). Hello...
...battleship Utah, which lay offshore. One of them, Chief Yeoman Ralph Everett Crawshaw, a quiet young man, was mail clerk on the Utah. Whether or not he exercised a sailor's prerogative and got drunk that gala day was a question which for 30 years was to bother Navy brass, four U.S. Presidents and seven sessions of Congress...