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Word: bastardly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When someone came back from the interview room he was besieged with questions: What did they ask you? Wasn't the guy on the right a bastard, Did they try to draw you into an argument, Did they ask you about the Ike speech? What...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: The Blue and The Grey | 12/15/1953 | See Source »

Last October fiery William Kelly, Republican candidate for Parliament in Northern Ireland and a Roman Catholic, made a promise to his constituents. "I will not," he declared, "take the oath of allegiance to a foreign Queen of a bastard nation." When elected, Kelly refused to take his seat. Last week, in a North Irish court, he was found guilty of sedition, and given the alternative of posting a $280 bond for five years' good behavior or going to jail for a year. Cantankerous Kelly chose jail. But, said he, "I will never submit to wearing prison garb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Her Majesty's Opposition | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...Stir up the fire, Lucio . . . You have the whip and the little knife? Good . . . I don't believe he's Jack-fool enough to resist." But Richard Morandi, a bastard descendant of Stuart kings, is not one to let himself be castrated in front of his sweetheart without fighting back. Since it is Venice and the 18th century, Richard has a knife of his own up his sleeve, and he knows how to use it. Many a lesser novelist would be out of climaxes after Richard dispatches his enemy, but Novelist Samuel Shellabarger has lots more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rosy Glow Dept. | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

Cairo was crawling with provocative rumors inspired by a bastard alliance of Communists and the rich men of the discredited Wafd party. The twelve-man Revolutionary Council was falling apart, whispered the rumormongers; its leaders were quarreling, its officers were selling out to the British. The brush-fire spread of the talk worried the men who 14 months ago wrested Egypt from the fat hands of King Farouk, for ruling Egypt is like riding a bicycle: keep rolling or you fall off. One night last week, the twelve officers went together to Cairo's jam-packed Liberation Square, climbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Give 'em Hell, Salem! | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...your Pentagon correspondent ... for calling the "Air Force Navy" a flotilla of admirals' gigs [TIME, Aug. 24]. Any boot knows that: The captain rides in a gig The admiral rides in a barge It doesn't go a damn bit faster, but it makes the old bastard feel large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 7, 1953 | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

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