Word: bastardize
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...could be heard all over the suddenly quiet club. His bleary eyes fell upon my guest of the evening, Russian Senior Lieut. Anton Pablov. Making his way towards our table, the American officer shouted at the top of his lungs: 'Come on out and fight, you raping bastard...
...Author Costain, a Doubleday editor, read or consulted over 500 books, hired a Chinese scholar and a research worker who could read medieval Latin and French. The background is laid in the murky, turgid England of Roger Bacon, the fabulous silk-&-spice Orient of Kublai Khan. An impoverished young bastard of noble blood leaves Oxford to seek his fortune in far Cathay. Here he meets the Khan's famed general, Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, and forgets the haughty girl at home in favor of the harem slave, Maryam, daughter of a fraternizing English crusader and his Grecian love...
Truman talked over that condition with other callers, and before the day was out his attitude was well known. He was inclined to make no concessions whatsoever to His Majesty the Emperor (the earthy President would normally think of the Son of Heaven as "that bastard"). Come hell or high water, Harry Truman was in a mood to demand complete surrender, qualified only by the original Potsdam terms and their predecessor, the 1944 Cairo Declaration...
...trip to the China front is always an adventure. It is a bastard combination of hitchhiking by airplane, truck and jeep over a supply line roughly equal to the distance between London and Berlin. It is climaxed always by inevitable concluding hours on foot. It rarely takes less than a week to get to the point of contact in China and usually takes a fortnight. For there is only one road, one zone of maneuver, and along that road all the motley personnel of this curious theater must travel...
Skeptics wondered if he was too mild-mannered. But Mel convinced himself that he had to be "as tough a bastard as his players forced him to be." He has been tough enough since, but has not be come a managerial giant. A third, eighth and fifth place finish in three years is not much of a record. The club's current collapse is all but a managerial disaster...