Word: bothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada's Barbara Ann Scott won the women's world championship for the second year in a row, making it all three for her too. Several outclassed rivals, including overtrained U.S. Champion Gretchen Merrill, didn't bother to compete. But Barbara Ann practiced with unflagging zeal, cautiously observing that "anything can happen." Nothing out of the ordinary...
...books still sit on dusty shelves without the redeeming promise of future use either here or abroad. The easy going "I'll look around and see," "Wait until after generals," or "Central Europe is a lost cause anyway" characterize the comments from those who just do not want to bother to inventory their bookeases. Realizing that the 'Apathy' symphony has been played until undergraduate cardrums ache; collectors hesitate to point it out as the molasses in the machinery. They know the program is sound; achievement means work...
...raying of College students by the Cambridge TB Association which will begin on February 16th. though the service will be free, Weld made the astute observation that the Association's hope for 5200 victims was overly hopeful as he believed the average, normal Harvard undergrad wouldn't bother to walk past the X-ray machine if it were placed between him and the dining hall. A committee was appointed--or perhaps it was a chairman--to coordinate the activities of the X-rayers as they circulate about the Houses...
...would take more than a bomb to break Gandhi's personal peace. Said he to his audience: "Don't bother about it. Listen to me." Then he resumed his prayer...
...know, if I cared to bother I would be president of the Student Council," trailed off the lethargic prexy of organized apathy. When forced to continue, he explained that in the last College-wide ballet less than half the men voted. "The non-voters lodged protest ballots for spathy, an I'm the titular head of the sleeping forces of spathy...