Word: bastardized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frazier saw it as a chance to prove in the ring that the title was his. For three years, he had held the heavyweight crown without being able to echo John L. Sullivan's famous champion's boast: "My name is John L. Sullivan and I can beat any bastard alive...
...example, Burnett, handily managing her first major film role, gets the sort of scene that actresses kill for: while Pete is upstairs playing with the dying Robbie, Tillie walks into the backyard and curses God ("You bastard, you bloody butcher") in a burst of fury and grief. But no sooner has she finished than her voice is heard again in narration on the sound track saying "Later, I could hardly believe that was me." It is as if studio executives, nervous about blasphemy by the country's TV sweet heart, wanted to smooth things over al most before they...
...rhetorical tone of the trip was set during Allende's stop in Mexico, where he was greeted by wildly enthusiastic crowds. "Yesterday in Mexico, today in Chile," the Marxist President told a special session of the Mexican Congress. "The bastard interests of the capitalists have tried to prevent us from being masters of our own destiny." Allende left little doubt that he was referring to the U.S., which he believes is trying to sabotage his government...
...walks to the Swan tavern to meet Sarah Udall, recording his aims, in bastard French, to "kiss and see mamelles...comgram plaisir." He reports to the royal council on the victualing of the fleet, and is complimented by "the King afterward, who doth now know me so well, that he never sees me but he speaks to me about our Navy business...
Because on another level, Kopkind does call the simulcast system "a bastard technological system," and short step shy of the 'feelies'''. That's ridiculous, Simulcast is an interesting advance in technology. At this point in time it isn't more. I grant its sinister possibilities, but I haven't seen them realized...