Word: bastardize
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...candidate, it was a cause," recalled David Dreyer, Hart's former national-policy director. "I don't know of anything that suggests he is going to serve the cause by getting back in." Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, an old ally of Hart's, likened him to the "bastard cousin who shows up at the family reunion." Lamm added, "The Democratic Party will forgive past indiscretions, but I don't think the party will forgive someone solely interested in playing the role of spoiler...
...luck. Affecting purple jackets and leopard-spot trousers, courting the social and cultural glitterati, restlessly glamour-traveling the world, he made it clear from the start that the critic's customary place as a dim lurker in the shadows was not for him. A bourgeoise childhood (he was the bastard son of a merchant who achieved knighthood) in provincial Birmingham taught him his lifelong horror of grayness. His legendary Oxford career as controversialist, actor, debater, director, dandy and libertine imbued him with his tropism toward fame's warming light. Indeed, it might be argued that his life's central mistake...
...into oil and gas, started building an expensive pipeline, dropped $214 million and was losing tire sales to the South Koreans. Goodyear survived only with the help of favorable legislation, and when the battle was over Akron's mayor expressed the local sentiments by saying, "We kicked that slimy bastard out." But Goldsmith ended with a profit of $93 million, and Goodyear adopted many of his ideas for a return to profitability...
...with national security. And the Marxist-led F.M.L.N. says its goal is peace with freedom from U.S. interference. A former government official despairs of ending the war. "This is a country that is never going to be at peace with itself," he says. "In El Salvador, peace is a bastard child...
...master of self-deprecation, Bragg calls himself the "big-nosed bastard from Barking." In person last Thursday, he looked handsome and healthy, not in the least worn out by his heavy tour schedule. And, as in concert, he provide to be a compulsive communicater, speaking rapidly in his gruff, not-always-comprehensible cockney accent...