Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Goddard accepted paternity of his bastard V-2, and that, as it turned out, was the last rocket he fathered while alive. In 1945 he was found to have throat cancer, and before the year was out, he was dead. His technological spawn, however, did not stop. American scientists worked alongside emigre German scientists to incorporate Goddard's innovations into the V-2, turning the killer missile into the Redstone, which put the first Americans into space. The Redstone led directly to the Saturn moon rockets, and indirectly to virtually every other rocket the U.S. has ever flown...
...about "open season" or "tracking down" anyone, both insulting hunting analogies. This is nothing revolutionary or extreme; it's the way adoption law stood for years before the failed social experiment of sealed records, which was founded on archaic notions of stigma, secrecy and shame. SHEA GRIMM, LEGISLATIVE CHAIR Bastard Nation Redmond, Wash...
...Washington coalition of agencies that arrange confidential adoptions, would require that extraordinary measures be taken by the state to find, counsel and get consent from birth parents before adoptees could even learn their names--to say nothing of meeting them. At the other extreme is the Internet-based Bastard Nation, which wants no exception whatsoever to open records and arouses activists' ire on its irreverent bastards.org website ("Rush for Our Records!" the site proclaims...
...look into my eyes and see what the future of Holly could have been." After the arrest, Elisabeth headed to the cemetery where her parents are buried on either side of Holly. "I want to put some roses on their graves and tell them, 'We got the bastard...
...fact, these albums can be seen as the darker, bastard children of New Wave music. The few songs to emerge from the murk are lifted directly from the 1980's. Holiday's "In My Car" is reminiscent of New Wave bands like Yaz, and "Sad Little Moon" contains beats and a background taken from pop radio of the aforementioned decade. Additionally, a strong Men Without Hats (circa 1986) influence can be discerned on Tomorrow's "Technical...