Word: bastardize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...colleagues and students verify that he is nothing if not independent. "He's a tough, independent-minded man," one said, adding that Cox liked to keep his decisions to himself. One of Cox's present students commented that he "could be a bastard in a classroom with someone who isn't answering the question," a talent he could be called on to demonstrate in dealing with recalcitrant Watergate witnesses...
...record," refusing to repress an obvious bias (pro-McGovern), and drawing no line at the point where the facts ended and his imaginative insanity began. For example, he gets into some very heavy slander: NBC's John Chancellor (who he seems to like) is a "dope-addled fascist bastard," Muskie is "a bonehead who steals his best lines from old Nixon speeches," and Hubert Humphrey is a "treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current." He doesn't pretend to cover the campaign thoroughly: he ignores some events...
...pelted down, but Paris' unruly students turned out by the scores of thousands last week to renew their protest march against the government. DEBRÉ, YOU BRIBED THE WEATHER BUREAU, said one slogan. MAMA, MAMA, YOUR SON IS IN THE STREETS, said another. And again: DEBRÉ, YOU BASTARD, THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE YOUR HIDE...
Back then, the cry was, "De Gaulle to the museum!" This time the target, like the crowds, was much smaller. "Debré salaud, on aura ta peau!" (Debré, you bastard, we'll have your hide). Gaullist Defense Minister Michel Debré, a perennial villain of the French left, was under fire for sponsoring the new draft...
When it came to name-calling, Whitlam gave more than he got. In Australia's rambunctious House of Representatives, where debate is often a euphemism for denunciation, Whitlam has described Liberal Cabinet ministers variously as "bumptious bastard," "queen," "dingo" (Australia's version of a coyote) and something that Hansard recorded as "runt" (which at least rhymed with the actual word). He once became so enraged with one Liberal minister that he dumped a glass of water on him. That minister was Paul Hasluck, who later became Governor General of Australia and, in an antipodean twist of fate, found...