Word: bothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into supporting his research. Most of his work is done at the Hillman Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. during an annual eight months' leave of absence from the University of Cincinnati. Unmarried, he refuses to own anything he cannot crowd into a suitcase, lives in hotel rooms to save bother, talks little but shop...
...years great divas have smeared their ample bodies with cocoa-colored grease paint or pancake make-up to sing Aïda, Giuseppe Verdi's Ethiopian princess. This week, an Aïda didn't have to bother. In Mexico City's Opera National the role was sung by Ellabelle Davis, a U.S. Negress...
Kremlin Service. Into GHQ Palgunov's overseas staff pours a daily torrent: full texts of speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, Government handouts, technical and business reports, verbatim pickups from A.P., U.P., the New York Times. They need not bother to slant their stuff; Moscow takes care of that. But neither Moscow's " big-circulation tour-page dailies, like Pravda and Izvestia, nor any other Soviet paper prints much more foreign news than many small-town U.S. dailies...
...spots bother us, too, of course, just as they bother all overseas transmission. Once, inadvertently, they helped us. The head of one of our overseas bureaus had sent in the qualifications of a correspondent he wanted to hire. He asked for an immediate reply. Our answer was negative, but by the time the wires were unspotted our bureau head had hired the man. He turned out to be a very good correspondent...
...land those millions was to make household appliances: refrigerators, kitchen cabinets, clothes driers. As they are made out of pressed steel, Murphy already had the know-how. The fact that Pressed Steel is entering a highly competitive field against several well-entrenched firms doesn't bother Ernest Murphy. Says he: "We've got to be in the top bracket. I've no time to waste on anything else...