Word: bothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highest bodily pleasure, should immediately ask whether you ate chocolates at the same time. On receiving the answer no, he might regard absence of chocolates as the chief characteristic of sexuality. In vain would you tell him that the reason why lovers in their carnal raptures don't bother about chocolates is that they have something better to think of. The boy knows chocolate: he does not know the positive thing that excludes it. We are in the same position. We know the sexual life; we do not know, except in glimpses, the other thing which, in Heaven, will...
Many of his boys, though in their teens, can hardly read or write when they arrive. That doesn't bother Starr, but he does insist on an I.Q. of at least 90. Most kids stay about two years: Starr believes that it is as bad to stay too long as to leave too soon ("They get over-institutionalized"). He thinks it easier to influence a boy at 17 or 18 than at twelve...
Since William of Orange chased James II across the Boyne water, 257 years have passed. Wasn't it about time the bother and the bitterness died down? July 12 came again last week, and, sure enough, the Roman Catholics (some call them Papists) and the Protestants (some call them Proddywogs) were, throughout Ulster and along its borders, good friends-in a relative manner of speaking...
...best collegiate athlete since Jim Thorpe . . . and possibly the greatest of them all" is a tremendous compliment to pay to Glenn Davis [TIME, June 16], but did your Sport Editor ever bother to check the record of one Jack Robinson...
...little good. Some of her struggling in the emotional meshes is fairly interesting, and a certain tension does develop as the clock crawls for the second time to midnight of Dec. 31; but the picture is garnished with so much ham and ineptitude that it hardly seems worth the bother...