Word: bastardizes
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...regicide conspiracy? Poor little Wheeler was grilled at length to discover if it was. Rumors spread that he was really a dwarf, or a scout for a gang of thieves, or "a Certain Gentleman's idiot bastard that had been shut up in the Devil's Tower since birth and had escaped after braining his keeper...
...ever equaled Cesare Borgia's record for quick promotion. Cesare was the bastard son of Vatican Vice-Chancellor Rodrigo Borgia and his mistress Vanozza de Catanei. When he was only six, he was made Canon of Valencia. At 15, he became Bishop of Pamplona; at 16, archbishop of Valencia; at 17, a cardinal. Only the papal throne itself stood ahead of young Cardinal Borgia, but since that was now occupied by his crafty father (who had become Pope Alexander VI), the frustrated youngster started looking around for other worlds to conquer...
Musical Kidneys. Cricket's Homer, a self-described bastard, was born 54 years ago in a Manchester slum. His buxom mother and her two sisters took in laundry until they learned that taking lovers was more rewarding; Neville was one of the rewards. His father, whom he never knew, was first violinist in an orchestra...
Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret sat in on a murder trial at Old Bailey. Neither batted an eyelash when the prosecutor, speaking in cultured accents, quoted one of the defendants as shouting: "We'll get away if we do in the bastard...
McGuire believes that the only thing that can save the West is a supreme effort of will: "However the story ends, our business is to resist the bastard fatalism which now infects us ... Freedom is not found in fatalism and passivity. Freedom is for men of good will. Freedom is for the brave...