Word: bastardizes
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...tidbits leaked to the Washington Post of what Secretary of State Alexander Haig said privately to his senior staff over the course of a year, the most memorable was his description of the British Foreign Secretary. He called Lord Carrington a "duplicitous bastard." The Post was so proud of its sneak look at what it called the "unvarnished Haig" that it devoted about 300 sq. in. of one day's paper to Haig's "private and apparently candid pronouncements." It proved a damp squib...
...Middle East] to pull a rabbit out of the hat a la Kissinger. This Secretary of State is not putting on Kissinger's fedora." On Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington's reluctance to commit Britain to participation in a peace-keeping force for the Sinai: "Duplicitous bastard. European friends -just plain cowardly. British, lying through their teeth...
...wears a light blue cotton Suit, a white and blue plaid short and a dark solid tie. Now that is a dentist. What requires a great leap of faith is understanding why Chelsea wants to unload the dentist's 13-year-old son on Ethel and the old bastard for a month while she and the dentist traipse around Europe. But skepticism never got anyone anywhere in the wonderful world of Sorman Rock well and Norman Vincent Peale (funny how that first name crops...
...buried in graveyards? How many generals? I once watched a cemetery being liquidated, and they were raking bones out. I looked at one of the big femurs and then at a little bone and said, "Man, this must have been a President and this must have been some poor bastard." The whole problem now is that you don't even know who the guy was, so why give a damn...
Even some U.S. intelligence sources admitted they had doubts about the reliability of their informants. Said one official: "Gaddafi has been a bastard for ten years. He's been making threats against the President and the U.S. for ten years. Is he serious now? There's a lot of loose talk and allegations out there. Separating that from the truth is the problem." Others believed Gaddafi's long record of making threats was reason enough to take the reports seriously. They pointed out that the unpredictable Gaddafi, faced with an increasingly unfriendly U.S. Administration, might feel he has no choice...