Word: bastardize
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...famed psychiatrist (not to be confused with his brother, Karl Augustus Menninger, still holding the fort at the brothers' Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kans.), warned Army doctors never to lose patience with soldiers with imaginary ills-most of them need psychiatric care. An Army doctor who says "The bastard isn't going to get away with that" may be merely venting his own resentment at the deprivations he suffers from being in military service. Doctors, Colonel Menninger pointed out, make more financial sacrifice on joining up than any other group...
...legend is prodigious. Once she went to Agua Caliente with Columnist Louella Parsons and Husband Docky Martin. In the gents' room of a Caliente tavern, Docky became involved with several brawling Mexicans. Miss Parsons, hearing the rumpus, asked Florabel what to do. "Hell," shouted Florabel, "rescue the poor bastard!" Forthwith, she dived into the room, grabbed Docky by the arm and hauled...
...last year, this year dropped the man-in-motion, spread his linemen (see diagram) for a basic off-tackle slice, scrambled this formation with the old Notre Dame box style of offense (a man on each corner). In the quiet of the locker room, he calls this conglomeration the "bastard...
...people jamming the bars and hot spots and movies. Their way of life hasn't really changed a damn bit. They are a million miles away from the sufferings of war. Then one day I was riding on a subway and I heard one bastard say to another one: 'If this war lasts for two more years I'll be on easy street...
...writer who can report as successfully as yours. Typical of that is the remark of a brother G.I. at our first mail-call on French soil. We were in a semicircle about the mail orderly when someone deep in the ranks bellowed "TIME mag at last! The first bastard who intercepts it gets a bayonet where it will hurt most, and I'm not kidding." That man expressed my sentiments exactly. If the people back home would send us TIME instead of backdated newspapers, newspaper clippings, cartoons and what have you, they would be saving our time and their...