Word: bothering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Deductions for mortgage interest would be restricted, but not in a way to bother the vast majority of homeowners. Deductions would be limited to $10,000 of interest a year; at present rates, a homeowner would have to be carrying a mortgage of about $110,000 before he ran afoul of that provision...
...Mitford--unlike, say, Lillian Hellman--does not bother with name-calling or invective. She simply states what the C.P. did, and what it felt like to be constantly under FBI and HUAC observation; individual party members become much more sympathetic characters through her witty description of both their heroism and their flaws...
...Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Hannah Green dealt with the anxieties about death, sex and insanity that bother many adolescents. The novel, which explores the efforts of an adolescent girl to free herself from a destructive fantasy world, found a wide following, largely because it evoked such sympathy with the schizophrenic heroine's anxieties...
...class homes. Unlike the student radicals of the late '60s who lashed out against "capitalist exploitation," imperialism and the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, today's German terrorists seem strikingly apolitical. In the coffeehouses of university towns, they are called Spontis-for spontaneous radicals who do not bother with ideology but simply want to destroy the present system, regardless of the consequences. "It's a bit frightening," observes a security officer from a Western country who serves as a liaison in Bonn. "When we kick down doors looking for these people at home, we find almost always...
...mind the political quiescence. "If there was a demonstration, I wouldn't really get involved in it, because I really don't have any complaints." When asked about her feelings concerning Harvard's stock in corporations with holdings in the Republic of South Africa, she said, "That doesn't bother me, there's nothing wrong with South Africa." She was put off by rioting in New York this summer following the Great Blackout, Round II: "I thought it was disgusting. This is the United States, why did it have to happen?" She said she was not aware that unemployment...