Word: bastardizes
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...classmate called him "foulmouthed," and another referred to him as that "sarcastic bastard." (O'Neill in later years, used to tell of his habit of blaspheming like a sailor, simply to annoy a number of fastidious youths of the class who were easily shocked...
...professionally) and a bad actor (morally). Now, as the whole past life of the undrowned man passes before his eyes, he re-enacts the parts he played, identifies his favorite sins-pride, sloth and greed-and recalls the judgment of a friend whose wife he had seduced: "This painted bastard here takes anything he can lay his hands on . . . the best part, the best seat, the best notice, the most money, the best woman . . . He's a cosmic case of the bugger who gets his penny and someone else...
...Bastardized. It was no use: a majority of Democrats defeated a majority of Republicans in beating down amendments seeking the restoration of foreign-aid funds. Indeed, such was the party turnabout that Pennsylvania's Daniel Flood, a Democrat who remained loyal to foreign aid, berated his fellow Democrats for deserting their own program. ''This is your baby,'' thundered Flood. "Do you make this a bastard child...
Lapses that might have cut short the careers of some scarcely detract from Paco Malgesto's prestige. One day, as he walked through a bullfight crowd with a portable microphone, he held out the mike to a stranger, who said, "You are a stupid bastard." "No sir," replied Paco, "it is you who are the bastard," and handed the mike back to the stranger. The pair traded obscenities for five minutes. That one cost Paco a 1,000-peso fine...
...between Atlanta, the U.P.'s southern division relay point, and Raleigh, N.C., where a staffer was simultaneously punching copy on two teleprinters. When Atlanta complained that the copy was moving too slowly, Raleigh replied: HE ONLY HAS TWO HANDS. Came Atlanta's message: FIRE THE CRIPPLED BASTARD. (The U.P. has also a generous side to staffers, but compassion-as most editors and newspaper readers agree-makes dull anecdotes...