Word: bastardize
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...write for twelve hours at a stretch without even feeling tired, but Dumas fils found writing an "exhausting physical labor," which caused dizziness and cramps. Senior lavished money on courtesans, wept his eyes out when they died-and rushed on to the arms of his latest conquest. But his bastard son, haunted since childhood "by the problem of seduced women and natural children," decided at an early age that his own books would be dedicated to the saving of corrupted womanhood...
...hardbitten, respected, slave-driving bastard," B.G. MacNabb, so excited over the recently successful test firing of "Big Annie"? His sophomoric screams of delight remind me of the reaction of an inadequate coach when his outclassed team scores a surprise touchdown...
...party members in Hopei he was not the same old Liu. The Boy Genius became "disobedient, more conceited, even mercenary." Instead of seeking out stories of "socialist realism," he went about engaging "people in talk about which girl in which household had given birth to a bastard." He sneered that novelettes like his own Red Flower were "divorced from reality" and "stories told to console children." When Comrade Mao propounded his slogan of "Let all flowers bloom." Liu seized the opportunity to publish a new book, Grass at Hsiyuan, which, according to the shocked China Youth Daily, "turned Communists into...
...violence from Grace Metalious' hugely profitable peeping tome (300,000 hardbound, 3,000,000 paperback copies sold) about low jinks in old New Hampshire. The novel's small-town citizens were guilty of murder, suicide and such richly varied venery as nude swimming, bundling in convertibles, bastard-getting and incestuous rape. The film script tidies up a few of these sensations, softens a calculated abortion to an involuntary miscarriage, and lets a couple of villains become last-reel good guys. But there is still too much meaningless blood and lust in Peyton Place. The film collapses, during...
...workers cleared the area. The 40-man firing team had long since begun operations 750 ft. away in a sand-covered concrete blockhouse. A mile away, on the roof of a hangar, stood B. G. (for Byron Gordon) MacNabb, hardbitten, respected ("I'm just a slave-driving bastard") operations manager for Convair, Big Annie's builder. Tuned with a headset to the countdown, MacNabb relayed the information to a teletype operator below, who in turn flashed it to Convair's San Diego headquarters...