Word: bastardly
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...Kastel fighting there were Britons on both sides. The Arab forces included five deserters from the Palestine police. In the confused close-in fighting at the end, two of these Britons heard a shout from the Jewish side: 'Come on, you Arab bastards!' They recognized the man as another police deserter and shouted back: 'Bastard yourself! What are you doing over there?' As the Haganah Briton went to throw a hand grenade in reply, one of the Arabized Britons killed him with his Bren...
Born. To Ilse Koehler Koch, 41, convicted "Bitch of Buchenwald" who collected lampshades made of tattooed human skin, and (putatively) one Fritz Schaefer, a fellow war criminal who tunneled into her cell last winter: a male bastard; in Landsberg (Germany) City Hospital, under guard. Name: Uwe Koehler. Weight...
...nationalists were unmoved. Said Dr. Alejandro Quijano, president of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua: "My heart grieves at these dangers. New words, new ideas we welcome. But we want no bastard words from beyond our borders...
...only the world's largest but at times its most raucous. Undergraduates sometimes blow off steam by deluging neighbors with pillow feathers and toilet paper, and loudly counting out the steps as the referee paces off a penalty against Cal, ending up with a thunderous "You Bastard!" When Stanford beat Cal in last year's Big Game, 25-6, disgruntled Cal rooters tore up the grandstands. U.C.L.A.'s rooters, who last year had a Rose Bowl team, behave better...
Grenadine's father was believed to be "the bastard son of an English King who had despoiled a Scottish maid between the act of shooting grouse and angling for landlocked salmon." Grenadine, herself part Negro with Creole trimmings, grows up with a gorilla for a playmate; her first word, at seven months, is "man." She marries the governor of Havana, then becomes a slave trader, millionaire racehorse owner, inventor of the cigaret and, after the first 100 pages, dull to read about. Merely exaggerating the absurd is no sure way to hilarity; satire must make its own kind...