Word: bastardized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...escorts in motor boats sometimes lost sight of him. Fifteen hours and 25 minutes after he had left Donaghadee, Tom Blower plodded up the beach in a misty little cove five miles from the Scottish village of Port Patrick. He looked back over his shoulder and said: "You bastard, I've conquered...
...quiver to think that I can predict a play is not enough to offset the tragic disappointment when the great Ted has to drop his bat and sidle to first. It is the great flaw in the American psyche. And how would you like to be the guy (poor bastard) who they walk Williams to get to. He's the fellow who will then hit into a double play. Imagine how he feels, letting his teammates down to the sound of icy silence from the stands. Soon the fellow's a neurotic. And who's the gainer? Not the other...
...trusteeship idea is a bastard offspring of timidity and confusion. Where, in all the world, do these four powers work together with sufficient coordination to suggest they could jointly administer anything? How can Koreans believe that at the conclusion of five years of confusion and intrigue the trusteeship would actually end? Who can doubt that Communist agitation would be invoked to create such confusion that a prolongation of the trusteeship would appear "necessary...
I.Q.s Can Change. At 32, Stoddard was a full professor and director of Iowa's Child Welfare Research Station, had begun his revolutionary researches into "the meaning of intelligence" (TIME, July 11, 1938). His conclusion: I.Q.s (supposedly fixed at birth) can be altered by environment. Stoddard found that bastard children of feeble-minded mothers, placed in good homes, turned out quite bright; normal youngsters, kept in overcrowded orphanages, "deteriorated...
...started to push in. Passing the man in the cage he stopped; it reminded him of coming out again, with the book. What book? Why get it? You don't need it, he realized. You don't need any books at all. Vag, you dumb bastard, after the orals there's nothing more, you're done, you don't need the book at all. He looked long and very sadly at the man in the cage and started diagonally--it was the only way--down the stairs...