Word: bothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...estimates I heard about Russians kept in slave labor camps ranged from 3 to 15 million. Usually the state does not bother to hide slave laborers (Russian or foreign); they are seen working everywhere. Only in Moscow are there occasional attempts to hide ugly facts. Once I drove past notorious Lubyanka prison with an Intourist guide. I asked deliberately: "What is that large, impressive building over there?" "Oh," she replied, "people live there...
...black marketeer, who began his career with the killing of a customs officer, Salvatore has totted up a spine-chilling record of robbery, blackmail, murder and kidnaping. Yet to many a Sicilian, Giuliano is a hero as revered as Robin Hood. Sicilian police have long since promised not to bother him provided that he kills no policemen. On Palermo's walls, signs calling for "Giuliano for President" are common sights...
...some practice on the fast cork rings out by the boardwalk. Larry was used to getting up early: his dad is a brakeman on the Norfolk & Western. He didn't know his rivals' names, and he didn't bother to find out: he addressed them by the cities pinned on their sweaters, Chicago, Monongahela, Steubenville. Larry was one of the smallest of the lot, but unlike the older competitors he did not worry about losing; he just thought about how to win. Said he: "I ain't afraid of Pittsburgh . . . he leaves too many edgers...
...altitude does not bother the local Indians, who have long since adapted themselves to Andean life. They thrive and raise families in altitudes up to 17,000 feet, which is more than a mile above the altitude at which most U.S. Army airmen are required to use oxygen. Peruvian pilots of Indian blood fly their airplanes as high as 24,000 feet without extra oxygen...
...they? If Christ was just a man, and Mary just a wife, if God is a likely probability and life after death a less likely one, then it is sensible enough not to trouble too much about these things. But if, in crises, the people who don't bother about God start praying . . . if, at funerals, the people who don't bother about life after death want assurance . . . then we may legitimately be suspicious. Are these minds clearer, or are they . . . less clear than ever...