Word: bastardize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restaurant's liquor list reads like a South Sea adventure. After an encounter with a White Witch (pure white Jamaica rum) or a Rangoon Ruby (vodka and cranberry juice), the drinker may well feel such a Suffering Bastard (rums, lime and liqueurs) that he will want to see Dr. Funk of Tahiti ("redolent of French rums and absinthe"). Actually, the author of these "Polynesian" cocktails has never roamed the South Seas. Nevertheless, salty, peg-legged Victor Bergeron, 58, has parlayed a flair for serving good food amid a supply of grass skirts, Tiki gods and outrigger canoes into...
Peintre cracked like a dropped mirror, implicating a burly, broken-nosed ex-Foreign Legionnaire as his fellow assassin. They had killed Popie, said Peintre, for $400 each, which had been given them by Paul Agay, 32, an executive of a soap company, who had told them: "That bastard has to be eliminated before he talks." Hauled in by the police, Agay would admit only that he had "received orders from Paris from someone I knew only by his Christian name...
...occasional witty or brilliant examination, and by the opportunity to discuss the answers with his colleagues. The student can't help regarding his grader as a mysterious nonentity who lurks in the corners during lectures and whose mental processes are utterly incomprehensible except for occasional rumor: "easy," "a bastard," etc. Most graders lack the time to comment on exams, and some courses even refuse to return them on request...
...When they burn a cross on your lawn that's not much; you just put it out. But when they call you up on the telephone twenty or thirty times a day and say, 'We're coming to get you, Jew bastard,' it begins to bother you a little...
...Shades. But mainly, traces of the beat forefathers remain in the coffeehouses only on menus or signs on the walls. Neatly dressed college kids at Caf&233; Bizarre in Manhattan's Greenwich Village observe a sign that advertises POETS AND FOLK SWINGERS, order such delicatessen as the Suffering Bastard Sundae ($4.75 for four). Even Washington, D.C., the municipal square root, has Coffee 'n' Confusion, where manicured men in dark blue suits and ladies in tailored dresses stare at a sign that says WELCOME COOL GOOLS...