Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...catch them by surprise. Mistakes are also easier to make in a day when mating is more random than ever. Unlike the divorce laws, the laws of marriage are simplicity itself: a girl can marry at 18 in most states without parental consent, and 20 states do not even bother with the normal three-day wait after a blood test. Many who get married do not seem to know quite what it is all about; a survey showed that U.S. teen-agers agree widely on only one marital duty: that the man should take out the garbage...
...been sent back by the end of the Spring term. "That was understandable," John G. Morrill, Coop general manager, commented in a recent interview. "They wanted a little free time to look over the publishers' lists, see what was new in their field." The Coop, therefore, did not bother the professors who had not returned their lists...
...flies off to run interference for an oil sheik whose assassination is pending. Among the double-dealers he encounters, none surpass Françoise Dorléac, a wry, loose-limbed French beauty who wafts the spirit of high comedy through a role that would hardly seem worth the bother if a lesser actress played...
...fought the Moors, assures the Queen that the earth is indeed round like a ball. The King, however, turns down Columbus on the grounds that 1) the earth is flat, and 2) Columbus is a Jew. Actually, Columbus was not Jewish, but for some odd reason Fast does not bother to enlighten the King or the reader...
Second, it is far from clear that the settlement was "inflationary" in the national context (presumably the President would not bother about it in any other context). The subway system is certainly not a key industry in the sense that steel or aluminum is. And the underlying assumption of the wage-price guideline is that excessive wage or price increases in key industries have an inflationary impact on the American economy. How great, really, is the danger that an "excessive" transit settlement in New York will transmit inflation to the economy as a whole...