Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alec Douglas-Home's Cabinet; he later placed a poor third in the 1965 party vote that installed Edward Heath as Opposition leader. He boils with emotion on the race question, particularly since his constituency has lately been invaded by large numbers of immigrant coloreds. He did not bother to inform the party leadership about his speech, but tipped off TV and newsmen. They soon found...
...ONLY does it bother Sontag that everybody takes pictures, it also bothers her that anything, anybody, can seem to have importance when photographed. "To photograph is to confer importance," she writes. But there is a different formulation of the relationship of photography to importance, a formulation that Sontag herself mentions at one point--namely, that photography does not confer importance, only discovers and communicates it. Between the two concepts lies a world of difference. If photography confers importance, this implies an importance inherent in the camera, rather than in the subject. It implies an already existing, hierarchical notion of what...
That night he went to bed early, for the first time in memory did not bother to wade through his thick stack of night reading, even overslept the next morning. Relaxed, almost jaunty, he told a group at the Department of Agriculture: "I am a Hereford breeder. I sell registered calves. I am going to have a lot of time to work on it pretty soon...
Please pay close attention to "we were anxious to compensate for the fifteen years." You were so sure you could do it that you did not even bother to insert "attempt to compensate." Moreover, fifteen years is a tremendous overstatement. It, too, reflects that inflated opinion of yourself...
Since the election is a state election, the motion of the City Council is irrelevant, but this did not seem to bother Vellucci...