Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...running scared, that's what's wrong. The trouble is we're in an age of labor leaders. They're looking toward retirement and they want to be labor statesmen. I saw George Meany on Meet the Press and I felt sorry for the poor bastard. He's pathetic...
...weapons motor cars." Then, in a spirit of charity, he re-edited "piddling" to "dull," and the international crisis eased. British names endlessly amuse him. perhaps because he himself is known as "Boofy" and sometimes as "Bonkers" Gore. "One of the oldest families in England is called Bastard," he wrote. "That must take quite a lot of living down. Moreover, it might easily lead to confusion. 'My mother was a Bastard,' though true, would be not only misleading, but seemingly disrespectful...
...errors of style that plague scholars who wish to entertain, is astonishingly rich in anecdote. Charlemagne was obsessed with his poor handwriting, constantly practiced it as he traveled over his lands in the royal coach. Charles's son, Louis the Pious, began his reign by banishing his three bastard sisters to a convent, later blinded his nephew, Italy's 18-year-old King Bernard, for plotting revolt. But afterwards Louis fell into a remorse from which he never fully recovered. His son, Charles the Bald, was the prisoner of fatal impulsiveness: while revolt flickered along all France...
...there's anything wrong with Jones and Pomeroy, but the "quiet cook" tempo they both favor quickly grows wearing, and the band's ensemble work on such tunes as Aluminum Baby and Quince was ragged and lugubrious (though the reeds were quite smooth). Moreover, the brass insisted on substituting bastard-Armstrong vibrato for clean attack, and the solos were badly phrased and unimaginative...
...students armed with firecrackers and cherry bombs continued to harass Meredith and the U.S. marshals who guard him. the teachers got bolder. Incensed at the constant uproar, sick at heart of students yelling "nigger bastard," faculty wives started a telephone chain, got 68 husbands to patrol the campus at night to cool hotheads. The chemistry department threatened to quit in a body. Teachers were tempted to give rugged daily tests to pacify rebels, and to flunk prime offenders, but both ideas were rejected on the ground that moral, not academic, pressure is the right approach. Now the faculty committee...