Word: bothering
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...headliners of the Faculty have warmed over the dishes they are planned to serve, he will have to look around for other matitutinal diversion. For he is gradually learning to sleep nights in his pent-house room in Lowell House, although reflections on the tower above his head did bother him at first...
...Outer Hebrides, it is stormbound for eight months of the year. No trees can grow there, no cats can live there, no horses, no rabbits, no rats. The St. Kildans (a population of 30 to 100 has lived there for centuries) speak nothing but Gaelic, do not bother to shear their wild sheep but pull the wool out by the fistful. They live on potatoes and sea birds. In winter, when the island is inaccessible, the St. Kildans maintained communication with the outside world by means of "sea messages." Letters placed in strong wooden boxes were thrown from the sheer...
...committee to recall its referendum ballots, despite the fact that some 15,000 answers had already been received. President Sims ruled out their objections. When the Drys appealed from his decision, a rising vote showed the convention so overwhelmingly in favor of the referendum that the secretary did not bother to count noses. The Drys then won this concession: though voting closes Oct. 15, the referendum result will not be announced until Nov. 10 ai the earliest, so that it will not influence the general elections...
...itch in this little monograph of precepts. Here is a plenty of theory but no rules of thumb. Many a bewildered Babbitt might profit by one or another of these Gallic apothegms. For example: "I love you" should never sound like a call for help. . . . And don't bother to tell me that you insist on being loved for what you are. You are worth more than that." No Columbus, Author Géraldy is more a maker of neat maps. The cartography of these disputed regions is still vague; such map-making fills a need. Without telling...
...Folsom Prison Billings, small, brown-haired, looking younger than his 37 years, remarked: "Well, that's that. It doesn't bother me. I've been here 14 years and I'm good for a longer stretch...