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Word: bitche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 10, 1947 | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Hindu reformist sect founded by Guru Nanak, a contemporary of Luther. *The Nawab Saheb of Junagadh once threw away 100,000 rupees on the wedding of his prize Airedale bitch, which wore ribbons to the ceremony; vows were read for her and her dog. *In 1802, after the Peace of Amiens, a group of British residents of Calcutta presented the temple of Kali with 5,000 rupees as a thank offering for victories over Napoleon. A century later Kali became a symbol of anti-British Indian nationalism, a place to which Mahatma Gandhi succeeded. That this substitution was only temporary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA-PAKISTAN: The Trial of Kali | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Appalled by his parents' Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism, he soaked up the religious mysticism of Emanuel Sweden-borg.-Believing that God was within man, he was scornful. of the traditional figure of Jehovah: "Any mother who suckles her babe upon her own breast, any bitch in fact who litters her periodical brood of pups, presents to my imagination a vastly nearer and sweeter Divine charm. . . . Against this lurid power-half-pedagogue, half-policeman, but wholly imbecile in both aspects-I . . . raise my gleeful fist, I lift my scornful foot." This kind of "elegant Billingsgate," as his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family of Minds | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...tolerate anyone on my Staff who does. . . . Ahead of you lies battle. ... It is inevitable for men to be killed and wounded in battle. But there is no reason why such losses should be increased because of the incompetence and carelessness of some stupid son-of-a-bitch. I don't tolerate such men on my Staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Five-Star Legend | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...course, they have been most repressed. New pupils often work out their repressed hate of their elders by biting, scratching, swearing interminably and "being generally anti-social." Says Mrs. Neill: "A small boy will sometimes walk in here, fix me with a glare and say, 'You stupid bitch.' But it doesn't mean anything to me. I know he's working up some hate he has." Sometimes the little fellow returns and says experimentally: 'You silly cow.'" Mrs. Neill fails to react, and the boy is supposed to lose his little inhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: That Dreadful School | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

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