Word: bastardize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discussion of sunspots and business activity in its first postmortem issue. It was caused partly by 1) the old fact that stock prices had generally risen far out of line with actual and visible profits, and 2) the new fact that too many people expected a recession, as the bastard result of full employment, high wages and too-high prices. Never had a coming slump been given such loud and passionate advance advertising...
...type which has been untouched by the new Empire attitude of both Tories and Socialists at home. Recently a TIME correspondent asked British Governor Sir Arthur Richards what he thought of one of the most important native leaders. Said Sir Arthur: ''He's a bloody bastard...
...loved his mother "with a mad passion"-"as criminal as possible" and indistinguishable from the love he felt for his mistresses in later years. His hatred of his chief rival was so violent that even in middle age he generally referred to his unfortunate father as "the bastard...
...stylized view of life. But the French, with their sharper attention to the way human beings normally behave, often manage to make their film conventions look lifelike. The real pleasure in this picture comes from watching Actor Raimu's very human vacillation between shame and pride in his bastard grandson...
...village square a tired rifleman sits down to eat a can of K-ration cheese. A fully armed Jap suddenly springs from an adjacent house, starts running away. The rifleman puts down the cheese, picks up his rifle, aims, fires twice. "Missed the bastard," he calls out to Valtin, sitting near by; "don't put my name in that book of yours...