Word: bother
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...anybody comes to bother my people or bother myself, I have the right to do the same thing," Gerstein quoted him as saying...
Others. however, seemed nonplussed by the iminent loss of long-distance service. Vincent T. Ho '91, a Quincy House resident whose family lives in the area, said he did not bother to register because he does not plan to make any long-distance calls...
...Bert and Ernie find themselves confronted with rain leaking through a hole in the roof. They lament that it is impossible to go out and fix the roof while it's still raining. Thus, they continue to get wet. When the weather finally clears, though, they decide not to bother fixing the roof, reasoning that you don't need a good roof as long as it's not raining...
...Codi does have her preachy side, not that it seems to bother Loyd. After she lectures him, he agrees to get rid of his birds and give up cockfighting. There is enough fun in this novel, though, to balance its rather hectoring tone. Codi has a deft way of observing her small, remote hometown, caught uneasily between past and future. When Halloween arrives, she notes, "Grace was at an interesting sociological moment: the teenagers inhaled MTV and all wanted to look like convicted felons, but at the same time, nobody here was worried yet about razor blades in apples...
Once we've taken a few finals and gotten poor grades on a couple of experimental papers, our eager sheen wears off and we understand the requirements of Harvard's megacourses: glibness, footnotes, Macintosh and an unwillingness to bother...