Word: botherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know it's not a gut--how's that?" he responds. "That particular criticism may bother me, but there's not much I can do about it. If people perceive a reading load with fewer pieces of literature but where I try to insist on having that read carefully and really mastered, if they perceive that as a gut, fine...
...Education. "When I was a kid I'd go around with my father, and once I met this guy behind a bar room called the Pepper Pot, sittin' on a log, smokin' a joint or somethin', just relaxing. I was a little kid coming to bother him, and he just took time to tell me things about music. I didn't even know it was Professor Longhair...
...Administration was not seriously concerned about the Soviet reaction. "It didn't bother us one bit," said an Administration official. Brezhnev's letter, delivered by Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to the State Department, was interpreted as a mild warning that Moscow might respond to any deployment of U.S. troops in Lebanon by sending a battalion of its own to Syria; both of these actions would violate an unwritten understanding between the superpowers, dating from 1973, not to send any forces into the Middle East. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said that Reagan had received the Soviet leader...
...bother to recall the gruesome civil war inflicted on the Lebanese by the PLO when it established itself in Lebanon nearly a decade ago. By adding its muscle to the forces of Moslem extremists, the PLO helped topple an already fragile coalition government of Christians and Moslem moderates. In 1975 and 1976, 50,000 people, most of them civilians, died in Lebanon...
...best shot of my life." He has won so much money playing golf, nearly $3 million, that for once the money involved was forgotten by every one. Some golfers are playing for something other than money. If you guaranteed some of them second place, they would not even bother to show...