Word: bastardization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when he led the Manchester United eleven to their first European Cup championship and was named Footballer of the Year. At 5 ft. 9 in. and 150 Ibs., he looks like a sparrow in shorts next to the burly "hatchetmen" who triple-team him to cries of "Break the bastard's legs!" Best's revenge is "to make them feel so inferior they'll never want to play football again." He does it with speed, deception and an uncanny skill for controlling the ball while warding off tacklers. Earlier this season, coming off a 28-day suspension...
...comforting to see that Harvard, the oldest university in America, is finally giving a birth certificate to the oldest bastard language in the world," commented Martin Kaplan '70, a member of the program...
...involved a Black Panther arrested for "resisting and interfering with a police officer." The testimony, as might be expected, was contradictory. The defense lawyer claimed that the white cop was really at fault for "harassing" a black by bellowing out "White Power!" and "We need to kill this black bastard!" The prosecution argued that the defendant had repeatedly referred to a policeman as a "f-ing pig," and had tried to elude arrest...
...record, this comedy, if you can call it that, is a bastard child of absurdist theatre. It is a play about everything and nothing. Before the evening draws to its long-awaited close we hear aphorisms about God. free will, existence, time space. love, and yes, death. Nothing is real. Everything is real. We are alive. We are dead... All this is fine, but we have heard it before. In the best absurdist plays, it has been sung...
Patton opens with the general's famous exhortation to the troops: "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." Brimming with messianic zeal, the movie general struts about North Africa as if he imagined himself a Carthaginian commander. And that is precisely what the real Patton thought he was. A mirror-gazing mystic, Patton believed in reincarnation and wrote odes to himself in his other lives. Today such attitudes in a draftee might bar him from...