Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doesn't it bother you? All those people getting killed?" she asked handing him the enchiladas...
...students described their situation as "demeaning," and singled out examinations and grades as especially demeaning. . . . Giving grades, the students felt, allowed the teacher to avoid serious engagement with the student's ideas, excused him from making extended qualitative comments on the work done, and thus expressed his unwillingness to bother about the student as a person. As one student expressed it, "What we want is criticism, not grades. Talk...
...have a slate of third-party candidates by 1970 to run for state and national posts. In Louisville last week, 176 delegates - some members of such groups as the John Birch Society and the Liberty Lobby - gathered to form yet another conservative party. Wallace, who did not even bother to answer an invitation to address the convention, was described by one speaker as "too liberal" because during his presidential campaign he had endorsed larger social security payments and 100% parity for farmers...
...theory, this should not seriously bother the Pentagon. "Rotsee," as collegians call it, remains highly popular. It supplies 50% of the Army's officers, 20% of the Navy's and 35% of the Air Force's. Army ROTC alone now enrolls 151,000 students on 268 campuses (v. 54 for the Navy and 208 for the Air Force). Many students are so eager for ROTC that next year the Army will add 16 more campuses. A student who signs up is committed to two years' active service as a second lieutenant. One attraction: he can boost...
Numerically, the Daley tactics appeared to work. Of 99 Democratic legislators, only 25 showed up for the meeting in Springfield. Humphrey, however, insisted that the absence of the Da-leymen didn't bother him. He added: "I intend to encourage the formation of groups like this all over the country, in all 50 states...