Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasional witty or brilliant examination, and by the opportunity to discuss the answers with his colleagues. The student can't help regarding his grader as a mysterious nonentity who lurks in the corners during lectures and whose mental processes are utterly incomprehensible except for an occasional rumor: "easy," "a bastard," etc. Most graders lack the time to comment on exams, and some courses even refuse to return them on request...
...Ireland, French, Mitteleuropa, American Twang, American Drawl, American Snob, Canadian, Australian and three kinds of Indian. He fools everybody. Everybody but his friends, that is; they are wise to him. When they call him up and a sweet old German nanny answers, they say, "Come off it, you old bastard." The trouble is that there really is a sweet old German nanny at Sellers' place, and she often gets an earful when she answers: "Voss diss?" Now that Alec Guinness has opted for serious roles, Peter Sellers is the best light actor in the English-speaking cinema...
...there in Crimsonland might ask. He is a television scriptwriter, creator of Chuckles Chipmunk, who quit his job because he found himself talking kideroonie talk. Murray, who will not be forced into the patterns of artificial idiocy, is also the guardian of Nick Burns, a precocious bastard of twelve. And most important, Murray is Jason Robards...
MINISTER. No I haven't (hunting desperately), it's all right...Arabia...Argentina...Arlington...hah-- Armageddon--a pagan village of roughly five thousand inhabitants, by a bastard son of Alexander the Great, parenthesis, 'folk...
...Colonel. Hamilton was the bastard son of a French-English mother and a Scotch father who lived together apparently with full approval of the community on the West Indian island of St. Kitts. At the age of 14, Hamilton confided to a friend: "My Ambition is prevalent that I contemn the grov'ling and the condition of a Clerk or the like, to which my Fortune &c. condemns me and would willingly risk my life tho' not my Character to exalt my Station. I shall Conclude saying I wish there...