Word: bastardize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inches. U.N. guards at Panmunjom are mostly U.S. military police, chosen for their size and brawn to tower over the smaller North Korean MPs. When they pass each other, there are spates of slanging, spitting and even slugging. Each side delivers choice epithets in the other's language. "Bastard!" shrills a North Korean. "Kae seki [son of a bitch]," mutters...
...minute one-inch height advantage. Language across the table, which is predictably tough, reached a peak last year when the senior member on the U.N. side, U.S. Major General Richard Ciccolella, violated past practice and started addressing his opposite number directly with such salty salutations as "Pak, you bastard ..." Once, when Ciccolella stared out a window while the North Korean side was trying to make a point from a chart, North Korean Major General Pak Chung Kuk admonished him in passable English: "Look at the goddam chart...
Barbara Ferris manages her ultimate put-down with a nice poignancy, and Werner plays the self-indulgent artist with the insouciance of a Habsburg bastard. Virginia Maskell, who died last January, is exceptionally beautiful and understated in the thankless role of the wife who is called upon to ask her rival during an improbable three-cornered confrontation in a restaurant, "Do you love music...
...Frank John Lausche achieved a pre-eminence in his state's political pantheon unmatched since the demise of Robert Taft. Lausche also be came crusty, overbearing and - more heinous yet to the Democratic stalwarts who had so long voted him into office -often treated his party like the bastard at the wedding. Last week his inde pendence bore him bitter fruit: Ohio's Democratic voters kicked...
...month marks the 276th anniyersary of the first performance of The Fairy Queen before the London rabble. Only Restoration England, as yet uneducated to the subtleties of durchgesungen Italian opera, was capable of producing such an amalgam of song, dance, pagentry, stage effects, and the spoken word--a truly bastard form of entertainment. This particular work is a castrated adaption of A Midsummer Night's Dream liberally interspersed with incidental music in the form of solo songs, ensembles, choruses, and instrumental pieces. With taste and dramatic rectitude thrown to the winds, extravagance is its only excuse and sole salvation...