Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will not live up to their full potential in politics until they become more diligent at the polls. While the number of registered Negro voters in the South has risen from 1,900,000 to 2,300,000 in the past ten years, scarcely 35% of the eligible Negroes bother to vote in local elections up North; by contrast, 85% of the Jews vote, and get commensurate rewards when politicians pass out patronage or nominations. New York's 16% Negro population elects only one of the city's 19 U.S. Congressmen, two of the 37 city councilmen...
...Hardin will say, "it doesn't really bother me that I'm not running in the Nationals. Maybe I'd make All-American. I could tell my grandchildren. Big deal...
...seater into a paddy like a stunned moth. Two larger Hueys, bristling with rockets and M-60 machine guns, came to the rescue almost at once. If the Viet Cong had lain low while the Hueys picked up the downed H13 crew, they might still have escaped the bother that was soon to follow. In stead the Reds shot down the Hueys too, and the gauntlet was thrown...
...Daniels, a Roxbury resident who attends Boston Latin and who took courses at the Urban School this summer, said that although most of the teachers were white, "it didn't bother me there; it's different from the Boston School System. It doesn't seem to matter whether your teacher is black or white. They're interested in teaching you something," Daniels said. It is also good to get out of Roxbury and see what other places are like, Daniels, who is applying to Harvard, added...
...code came to be totally ignored in the era when European films depicted what comes naturally (and occasionally, unnaturally), and when books gained almost complete literary license. But nobody in the movie industry thought it was worth the bother to bury the dead code until Lyndon Johnson's former aide Jack Valenti became president of the M.P.A.A. last May. Valenti, who had been a Texas public relations man before he went to work for L.B.J., was determined to give Hollywood a new image (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week, after four months of work with the M.P.A.A. board, Valenti presented...