Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another former top-level diplomat had a similar remembrance: "Malenkov did not bother to talk with the guests. It seemed as though he resented just being there. You could not tell what sort of fellow he was. He did not drink too much, and he did not abstain-a calculating toyer with a glass. Always he wore that party uniform [a drab, high-collared tunic, once affected by Stalin], which went out long ago in Russia . . ." The diplomat paused. Then, spacing his words for emphasis, he continued: "I -would -hate -to -be -at -the -mercy -of -that...
...disc. Doctors, including her husband, Dr. Joel Pressman, estimated that it would be another month before she could be up & around. Complained Claudette: "If I'd been anybody else, I'd have gone to a doctor. But when you're married to one you hate to bother him with family ailments...
...obscurity in the records does not bother Dr. Velikovsky, who spins his theory out of threads snipped out of the ancient tangle of folklore. Myths and popular legends are full of catastrophes. Many ancient peoples, for instance, lived in fertile river valleys. They suffered from floods, and were apt to magnify big ones into widespread deluges. They usually worshiped the sun in some form, and were therefore apt to spin myths about times when their god or gods' behaved oddly. Velikovsky makes a large collection of these catastrophe myths and insists that they refer to the visits...
...Girls Bother Neighbors...
...should anybody want to meet Mr. Eliot-even halfway? More particularly, why should Americans bother about this Missouri-born American who talks like an Englishman, has not lived in the U.S. for the past 36 years, and gave up his U.S. citizenship to become a British subject...