Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outing to Czar Nicholas I's seaside palace, scores were drowned. The newspapers suppressed the disaster, so as not to "distress the Czarina [or] imply blame to the Czar." By a similar procedure, when a serving girl was murdered in a back street, the police did not bother to report the crime, but were careful to make a few rubles by selling her body to medical students for dissection...
...word "love" runs like a refrain through Bouche's conversation; it is implicit in his art. Humility shapes his art, too. The fact that he can never match the overflowing vigor of a Rubens or a Picasso does not bother him. He is content with painting quiet, tender little pictures as beautifully...
Floating Beer Keg. Chapman divides the questions that bother Americans into
Profitable Sideline. The collapse of those hopes did not bother Merl for long. With financial help from Jacobs officials and some friends in a Washington law office which made a specialty of winning RFC loans for clients, he went into the insurance business for himself. He worked up a sideline as an "expediter" who, through his influence with the right people, could help companies doing business with
Flying homeward, Ike stopped off at the two remaining NATO countries on his schedule: soldierless but strategically important Iceland, and Canada, where he conferred with cabinet members. From Ottawa Ike called the Pentagon. Said he: "I'm sick and I'm tired. Don't let anybody bother me until I get some rest'." In 22 days he had covered nearly 20,000 miles, visited twelve countries...