Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every religion believes in some form of soul, or animating principle of life. But the fact that none of them ever defined it satisfactorily seemed to bother James Kidd, an eccentric Arizona copper miner whose lifetime interest was the explanation of the supernatural. Kidd mysteriously disappeared in 1949, and was declared legally dead in 1965. Arizona authorities found among his possessions a handwritten will in which the prospector directed that his estate, consisting of stocks and bonds worth $198,138.53, be used for "research or some scientific proof of a soul of the human body which leaves at death...
...causing a large crowd to leave a large chamber in a hurry." At last his dream was realized. The Deputies poured out the chamber's four doors like water past a broken dam. The next day the Deputies were too busy voting Levi Castillo's ouster to bother about finishing the reading of the list...
...million), and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences ($49 million for the Program for Harvard Science). Pusey's total of $160 million of new needs was, if anything, conservative. There are ventures to which the University has already made commitments that will demand new money but Pusey did not bother to include some of these. (The most prominent omission from his list was the University's participation in the development of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library site, a job that will probably cost from $12 to $16 million...
...barbarism of battle. "The com pany had gone on [toward Teruel] and this was the phase where the dead did not rate stretchers, so we lifted him, still limp and warm, to the side of the road and left him with his serious waxen face where tanks would not bother him now nor anything else and went on into town." A wounded Loyalist soldier had a "face that looked like some hill that had been fought over in muddy weather and then baked in the sun." Hemingway reported so well and so movingly from Spain that two of his newspaper...
...would be losing jobs for the rest of our lives"), the league's chairman insists the group is educational, not social, and "plans no mixers with Harvard." So far, Columbia students seem little interested in joining. Shrugged Sophomore Elliot Stern: "As long as they don't bother the rest of us, it's O.K." The league's biggest problem will probably be its self-imposed secrecy. As some students asked: How do you treat them equally when you don't know who they...