Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final round of the 144-hole Weathervane cross-country golf tournament and a $5,000 first prize was at stake.* Despite her wisecracks to the gallery ("The only time the gallery will ever bother me is when it doesn't show up"), Babe was grimly intent on winning, "not for the money-I just like to play a good game...
Yale is also a custodian of another sort. It was not even a university officially until 1887-eleven years after Baltimore's Johns Hopkins began as a model. It did not bother with a full-fledged engineering school until 1932-36 years after Columbia. It did not climb aboard the "elective" bandwagon until Harvard had tried the experiment for 20 years, or build its residential colleges until 1933, when Harvard's houses were already three years old. Even its fraternities were never cast from the campus wholesale, as were those at Princeton under President Woodrow Wilson, though most...
...herded from prison camp to prison camp. Except for the endless days and hours of forced marching back & forth over Korea's mountains, none of the prisoners had any complaints. "The Chinese fed and clothed us the best they could," said one. "The only thing they did to bother us was a little mental torture -holding out the lure of release...
Cinemactor Gary Cooper and wife "Rocky" did not bother to give a reason for their separation. After 17 years of a marriage which had provided gossip writers with scant copy, except for some recent whispers of a shy romance between Gary and his leading lady Patricia (The Fountainhead) Neal, the family lawyer announced that they would divide their property and part. Said Rocky: "I am a Catholic and I will never divorce Gary. I do not believe in divorce...
...committee debate next morning raged loud & long. Goober Cox, after two hours of haranguing his committee ("A vote for this bill," he snorted, "is a vote of confidence in Acheson"), was surprised and disgruntled to find himself almost alone in opposition. He didn't even bother to vote and the bill was reported...