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...Paisley, who has rejected the Tory-imposed peace settlement for the troubled province. By contrast, Labor might have better luck in garnering support from the nationalist M.P.s. Wilson himself avoided comment on Heath's decision, but another top Laborite spat out that Heath was "a very, very stubborn bastard, just like Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: A Crippling Election That Nobody Won | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...JUST protecting myself," he said. "The bastard swung at me so I reacted. I hit him in the jaw and knocked him out cold. He must have been out for at least five minutes. My mother was crying in court and pleading with the judge but I'm not sweating it. I'll be out in a few weeks...

Author: By Ronald W. Wade, | Title: Billerica Hoop | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...indeed mean "orgasm" in street language. But we are nevertheless stuck with the term, as any copy of the Soviet-published English-Russian Oil Trade Dictionary will readily attest. In trade jargon like ours, which is fraught with such unpedigreed English phrases as "mating parts," "male and female threads," "bastard connections" and "nogo nipples," perhaps your comment on our display (which received a merit award from the Soviets) was only teat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 24, 1973 | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

...poet anarchist, the man who likes to pretend he watches life with cynical dispassion from the grandstand, who claims to invite and welcome death, is a role full of traps. It is hard to separate Slade's sodden grandiloquence ("Go, for the love of Christ, you mad tortured bastard, for your own sake!") from Eugene O'Neill's own penchant for overstuffing his dialogue. Ryan does it by animating and underscoring every line, each inflection with a vast, crumbling dignity, a lacerating honesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Eloquent Memorial | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

...official JDL protestors appeared at the meeting, but a man yelling "Arab bastard" at speakers was ejected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Zionist Forum Held Amid Threats Of JDL Disruption | 10/12/1973 | See Source »

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