Word: bastardizations
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...ball carrier; the T formation, with its quick-opening plays and tricky hand-off s; the split-T, which spreads the defense for exasperating option plays-Michigan State uses all three and adds even more. At any moment Duffy's quarterbacks may disconcert the defense with a bastard version of the T. In this maneu ver, the ball is snapped directly to the fullback through the T quarterback's legs, leaving the quarterback free to block ahead of the runner or tear downfield for a pass...
...with a cool eye. He would brace himself to lecture him on the evils of drink only to find the unpredictable Hal had become his sober, fascinating self again. The boy's judgement still stands: "Father's a bit difficult at times, but I love the old bastard...
...Contemptible who has lived beyond his era, beyond World War II (when everything was "more efficient"), and on into the Welfare State. The old fellow recalls the recruiting poster of World War I, "Kitchener Wants You," and adds his sardonic comment: "He's about the only bastard what does...
...simple reason that clean sheets were virtually unknown in 15th century England -which had reached about the same stage of political ethics as Russia is enjoying today. Lord Protector Richard arrested and executed his brother's advisers. Conveniently, a friar preached a sermon on the ominous text: "Bastard slips shall not take root," whereupon Richard declared his brother's children illegitimate, and took the throne himself. For a short time, the little prince and his brother were seen by passers-by "shooting at butts ... on the Tower greens." Then they disappeared. Atween Two Feather Beds. "Some said," writes...
Born in Moscow a few months before Napoleon entered the Czar's tinder capital (1812), Alexander Herzen grew up a bastard aristocrat in a land of serfs, hating the vast sloth of the barbarous empire. Like many another conscience-stricken property owner of his time, he became one of the wild geese of Russia who flapped about Europe hoping that their words would huff and puff down the Byzantine walls of the czardom...