Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best of my knowledge. Murphy wheeled and stormed back toward his desk, muttering, "Bastard...
...Bastard," snapped the angry student to the person at the desk beside him. "They don't care whether you learn anything in this lab. But I'll take the first part of his advice...
Dwight Eisenhower was "not fitted for the job" of President, Winston Churchill was "long-winded," Joseph Stalin an "old bastard," and Douglas MacArthur "so important in his own mind he thought he was greater than the President of the United States." This is a TV commentator? Sure is. Harry Truman, 80, talking in his taped weekly TV series, Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman. That sort of thing so impressed the American Cinema Editors that they awarded him an "Eddie" as "the most outstanding television personality...
...were hauled from their seats by police when other efforts to eject them failed. In an attempt to make debate more seemly, Speakers of the past have banned "grossly insulting language" and the use of such words as villain, hypocrite, murderer, insulting dog, swine, Pecksniffian cant, cheat, stoolpigeon and bastard. In the 1880s, one Charles Bradlaugh was refused his seat because he was an avowed atheist. When Bradlaugh tried to take it anyway, he battled ten Bobbies to a draw until he fainted from his exertions...
...Italian practice of "stable concubinage," the registration papers of at least a million Italian children were marked with an "N.N." (for Nemini Notus, meaning roughly "Not known to anyone") that stamped the children for life. Finally a law was passed in 1955 erasing the demeaning stamp from every bastard's official documents...