Word: bastardizes
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...there's anything wrong with Jones and Pomeroy, but the "quiet cook" tempo they both favor quickly grows wearing, and the band's ensemble work on such tunes as Aluminum Baby and Quince was ragged and lugubrious (though the reeds were quite smooth). Moreover, the brass insisted on substituting bastard-Armstrong vibrato for clean attack, and the solos were badly phrased and unimaginative...
...students armed with firecrackers and cherry bombs continued to harass Meredith and the U.S. marshals who guard him. the teachers got bolder. Incensed at the constant uproar, sick at heart of students yelling "nigger bastard," faculty wives started a telephone chain, got 68 husbands to patrol the campus at night to cool hotheads. The chemistry department threatened to quit in a body. Teachers were tempted to give rugged daily tests to pacify rebels, and to flunk prime offenders, but both ideas were rejected on the ground that moral, not academic, pressure is the right approach. Now the faculty committee...
...ouster of a district attorney. He was a leading member of the blue-nosed Watch and Ward Society. As self-appointed judge and jury of the city's morals, the society pounced on the tiniest infractions of "good taste." Playwright Ben Hecht, who used the words "bitch" and "bastard" in one of his plays, was forced to change them to "dame" and "buzzard." Lindsay-Crouse's famed Life With Father rang repeatedly with the exclamation. "Oh, God!" In Boston it had to be changed...
...contact with this elusive semi-potential foe by contacting them through the CRIMSON. We have taken this whole affair as a terrible affront, the Brown club having established Ivy Ieague tiddlywinks in 1793. In the first match, our team, led by Roger Williams Brown, easily defeated John Harvard's bastard grand-nephew, Rufus. Our predominance in the field has not been contested since...
...friend asks Brendan, and at the book's end Brendan thinks the answer is yes. Supposing himself to be the cause of the calamities that have overtaken the Tierney family, he figures that he has made the supreme sacrifice to his art by turning himself into a thoroughgoing bastard...