Word: botherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things really bother me about such language. One of these is the abuse of the word "like," which with the exception of similes and expressions of mild affection, should not be used. It seems to me that people use it when they can't like, you know, think of any like adjectives...
...nice idea, but badly organized. At this point, I simply don't care anymore. Next time, don't bother inviting...
...well, for there is evidence that they pick up precious little in four years from some of the school's world-class scholars. Many top Harvard faculty, say critics, tend to be too engrossed in their own research, too busy with outside consulting or just too lordly to bother with anything so trivial as an undergraduate. One eager junior, preparing to write a paper on relations between the U.S. and China, asked for an appointment with Ross Terrill, then director of Harvard's East Asian Studies programs. After a long delay (standard heel cooling for an interview, claims one source...
...work at a game for which he had never had to push himself before. "I'm going to show my best tennis down the road," he said. "And I also believe . . . that being in such great physical shape is going to help me mentally when things try to bother me on the court...
...information into the hands of enemy agents and enemy journalists. The directive made all Federal employees with access to such information, including Cabinet officials, subject to random lie-detector testing. After the directive was made public, Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 said that taking the test "wouldn't bother me a bit." But Secretary of State Shultz would have none of it. "The day in this Government I am told that I'm not trusted is the day that I leave," he told reporters...