Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party members in Hopei he was not the same old Liu. The Boy Genius became "disobedient, more conceited, even mercenary." Instead of seeking out stories of "socialist realism," he went about engaging "people in talk about which girl in which household had given birth to a bastard." He sneered that novelettes like his own Red Flower were "divorced from reality" and "stories told to console children." When Comrade Mao propounded his slogan of "Let all flowers bloom." Liu seized the opportunity to publish a new book, Grass at Hsiyuan, which, according to the shocked China Youth Daily, "turned Communists into...
...violence from Grace Metalious' hugely profitable peeping tome (300,000 hardbound, 3,000,000 paperback copies sold) about low jinks in old New Hampshire. The novel's small-town citizens were guilty of murder, suicide and such richly varied venery as nude swimming, bundling in convertibles, bastard-getting and incestuous rape. The film script tidies up a few of these sensations, softens a calculated abortion to an involuntary miscarriage, and lets a couple of villains become last-reel good guys. But there is still too much meaningless blood and lust in Peyton Place. The film collapses, during...
...workers cleared the area. The 40-man firing team had long since begun operations 750 ft. away in a sand-covered concrete blockhouse. A mile away, on the roof of a hangar, stood B. G. (for Byron Gordon) MacNabb, hardbitten, respected ("I'm just a slave-driving bastard") operations manager for Convair, Big Annie's builder. Tuned with a headset to the countdown, MacNabb relayed the information to a teletype operator below, who in turn flashed it to Convair's San Diego headquarters...
...classmate called him "foulmouthed," and another referred to him as that "sarcastic bastard." (O'Neill in later years, used to tell of his habit of blaspheming like a sailor, simply to annoy a number of fastidious youths of the class who were easily shocked...
...professionally) and a bad actor (morally). Now, as the whole past life of the undrowned man passes before his eyes, he re-enacts the parts he played, identifies his favorite sins-pride, sloth and greed-and recalls the judgment of a friend whose wife he had seduced: "This painted bastard here takes anything he can lay his hands on . . . the best part, the best seat, the best notice, the most money, the best woman . . . He's a cosmic case of the bugger who gets his penny and someone else...