Word: bothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaf they can get. Although hobbled by price ceilings and individual War Food Administration quotas, they have sent prices flipping up like a snapped butt. Low-grade leaf, once worth only a cent a pound, now brings up to 30?. Second-growth "wisps," which growers once did not even bother to cart to market, now find ready buyers. Flue-cured tobacco, mainstay of the industry, is up to 40? a pound, almost double the 1933-41 average...
Could Jeffries overtake FitzGerald's 37,000 primary lead in the November finals? Political wiseacres hesitated to guess. Jeffries' backers believe their overconfident supporters didn't bother to vote in the primaries...
...soon learned that the South was still battling the Civil War, but it didn't bother us until the storekeepers tried to give us change in Jefferson Davis dollar bills...
V.F.W., sitting pretty, did not even bother to set up a recruiting fund last week. It will continue to mail the monthly magazine Foreign Service to the fighting fronts, along with the membership cards ($3 for the duration) and ribbons which have produced such gratifying results. They voted $250,000 to establish permanent national headquarters in Kansas City. The delegates also...
...were to tell you that you have no ulcer or cancer, and that there is no reason to expect one in the future, and if I were to assure you that this ache is due only to a little arthritis around your spine which may bother you off & on for years without bringing you to any bad end, what would you do?' His answer delighted me. He said, 'I'd say, to hell with it!' And off he went happy and . . . cured...