Word: bastardize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leader Everett Dirksen, whose forces had become reasonably confident that they could scuttle Morrissey's nomination. After crossing the Senate floor to give Teddy an avuncular handclasp, old Ev rumbled: "It takes something for a young man to subdue his pride. It doesn't bother an old bastard like me. But in a young man it takes courage...
...again! Yes, again the booming Monroe industry has brought forth a book about the star-crossed star. This one, for a change, is quite well written, but Biographer Edwin Hoyt (The Vanderbilts and Their Fortunes) tells the same sick story everybody tells: bastard birth, maternal insanity, preschool rape, foster-family neglect, casting-couch apprenticeship, fanny-flipping fame, dismal marriages, barbiturate addiction, overdosed death. And he reaches the same solemn conclusion: Marilyn was the "innocent" victim of a corrupt society. Now really...
...economy before Castro was buoyant and quite diversified, although the sugar industry was the basic business, just as steel is in this country. Contrary to what you say, Castro is a very real threat. Nevertheless, your portrayal of Brother Raúl as the archetype of the bastard is quite accurate. NÉSTOR E. CRUZ GAVALDÁ Villanova University...
...celebration [Oct. 1]: The quotation on my funeral was a wee bit garbled. What I said was that I would have the biggest funeral anybody ever had in Kansas City because, after all the political battles I had been through, folks would show up to be sure the old bastard was dead. Your story said "their old master." I have never been a master of anybody, including myself sometimes, I think...
...brief, the dating rests on two major pieces of physical evidence. First, the scribe who drew the map and copied the text used a writing style known as Oberrheinische Bastarda, or Upper Rhineland bastard (or cursive) book hand, which is confined to the period 1415-1460. Since the handwriting is in fully developed form and free of accretions from styles that developed later, a date in the 1440s seems most likely. Second, the parchment and paper used can be traced to the same period, and a unique spectacled head of a bull used as a watermark on the paper shows...