Word: bothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...windowless teachers' room of the Nadke High School (during the war the headquarters of the U.S. 96th Division), old, bushy-haired Principal Matsugoro Shimabukuro sighed: "The students here are too puzzled to have any fixed hopes. Why bother to graduate from high school if the only job you can get is working on a labor gang for the American Air Force...
...frustrated young ghost who haunts their newly-bought country house. Local gossip whispers that an attractive girl was smothered to death there 40 years before by some avaricious caretakers who wanted her inheritance. Mason and Mullen are unimpressed until she begins to whistle in the speaking tubes and bother the help...
Pancho Gonzales took his first pro beating without a whimper. In the dressing-room later, he said: "There are no excuses. The light didn't bother me ... I wasn't nervous. I wasn't scared by the crowd. I wasn't thinking about the money either. Kramer held his service and I couldn't get my first ball in, so I lost. That's all, I lost...
...improbable success in film milestones like "The Freshman," against competition from such adept funnymen as Buster Keaton and Chaplin himself. "Movie Crazy" shows what happened when sound hit the screen, and the champions of the gestured word had to adjust. Most of the time, they didn't bother...
After the conviction of the 11 Communist leaders last week, two problems linger on to bother those who wish to maintain justice while preventing subversion. One is a legislative problem, the other a question of specific procedures used by courts and loyalty boards...