Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith gets a degree there will be a riot, and that would bother the alumni, and the whole graduation show is designed to entertain the alumni anyway, so you can count...
...contrary, most of them believe that in the military they are learning to be managers, and they feel that a college graduate can spend his two years more profitably as a second lieutenant than as a private. The possibility of schedules and regimentation doesn't seem to bother them. After two years of standing at attention, shuffling forms and memoranda, and perhaps fighting a war, many of them will return to grad school and to the quieter oblivion of the lecture hall...
...such areas as sanitation and law enforcement, but most of them are restricted to routine housekeeping chores by jealous state legislatures. Local governments should be feeding ideas to their state capitals on urban-renewal and welfare programs, but city halls have been ignored for so long that few bother to do so. Half of the states go so far as to deny home rule to their cities, an absurdity that forces Chicago to ask Springfield for everything down to the right to license peanut vendors. That absurdity is also forcing Mayor John Lindsay of New York City-whose $4.6 billion...
...such high minded gentlemen: honor will not permit it. Furthermore, Rusk tends to identify his personal honor with the national honor. "I am honored to have my name associated with the doctrine that the United States must honor its pledged word," Rusk has said repeatedly. What appears to bother Rusk most of all about the war in Vietnam, one suspects is the lack of chivalry on the other side...
...enduring paradox of the Boston Marathon is that the doctors who give each entrant a physical exam before the race never bother to check his head. Ask a competitor what makes him run and he will tell you: "It feels so good when I stop." It must-after 26 mi. 385 yds. of loping up and down hills, fighting leg cramps and nausea, cultivating blisters, dodging angry dogs and straining to hold out till the next comfort station. Such stoicism is plainly un-American-which explains why a foreigner has won every Patriot's Day marathon in almost...