Word: bastardize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while, watching the bandaging of the first German wounded. Suddenly I saw a Chetnik standing in a group of German officers. He was a young man in a peasant costume, a rifle slung across his shoulder and on his cap the insignia of the Royal Yugoslav Army. "The bastard," muttered Talbot...
...Margaret Chung (see cut), matriarch and "mother" to some 700 Allied pilots who wear the jade Buddha tiepins of the Organization of Bastards (because they are not her legitimate sons), to 400 Kiwis-good Bastard material, but non-flyers-(named after the kiwi, a bird which cannot fly), to 300-odd Golden Dolphins, a society of submariners, first became a "mother" to seven American aviators who tried to volunteer for service with the Chinese Air Force in 1931. A top-notch San Francisco surgeon, she has flown thousands of miles to give her medical skill to her "sons," makes...
...shells from mortars painted ribbons above the rooftops. Machine guns stuttered viciously from every house. When the Canadians came close through the nightmare flame and explosion, the Nazis taunted them in English: "Will you give up now?" The Canadians' answer was a Hemingway phrase ending with the word "bastard...
...life, with its lustrous and peculiar glints through the obscurities of history, will always have a fascination comparable to his work. He was born, out of wedlock, at the Tuscan town of Vinci, in 1452. His father was a prominent lawyer, his mother a peasant woman. The bastard was brought up by his father. Precociously gifted in painting and drawing, he was sent to work with Andrea del Verrocchio, a sculptor and art teacher of Florence...
...slapped him sharply across the face, turned to the commanding medical officer who had come in when he heard Patton's high-pitched imprecations. "I want you to get that man out of here right away. I won't have these other brave boys seeing such a bastard babied...