Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of slugging tactics that McCarthy might use on Stevens in an open hearing. Fighting Bob barked back: "I'm not going to have my officers browbeaten." McCarthy snapped back with another attack on Zwicker: "I'm not going to sit there and see a supercilious bastard sit there and smirk...
...this sort might have a great influence on future Harvard graduates' ability to get jobs, Alexander commented. While a somewhat similar plan was in effect at the University of Chicago, allowing for a reduction in time spent as an undergraduate, other college administrators called Chicago's B.A. a "bastard of arts." They forced Chicago graduates to reregister for "real" B.A.'s at their universities before they could do graduate work there...
...started late in his field. As an undergraduate at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, he had "delusions of being a scientist," took geology under Kirtley Mather, and changed his mind abruptly after a near-disastrous chemistry course. Graduating in 1920, Owen had earned a Ph.B., which he describes as a "bastard degree for philosophers who lack a knowledge of Greek." From Denison he went to Yale, received a doctorate and became an instructor, but it was ten years before he began to teach English History. "I sort of backed into it," he says...
Papal Carpetbagging. Lucrezia's big trouble was her family. Her father, Rodrigo Borgia, a crafty, sensual and deceptively charming Spaniard, got himself elected Pope in 1492 as Alexander VI. Alexander was an unashamedly worldly pontiff who made no effort to conceal Lucrezia and his seven other bastard children - indeed, thought nothing was too good for them. For eleven years, in one of history's most painstaking carpetbagging expeditions, he virtually turned the papacy and its pos sessions into a family preserve...
...Sforza, of the powerful Milanese Sforzas. But for her father, this was just the beginning. Four years later he forced Giovanni to an annulment on the pretext (scandalously false) that the marriage had never been consummated. Soon Lucrezia was sent higher up the political scale by marriage to the bastard son of the powerful King of Naples. This one lasted two years. Then Cesare had the fellow murdered, and husband No. 3 was found for Lucrezia : Alfonso d'Este, son of the even more powerful Duke of Ferrara...