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Word: bitched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later last week the "Bitch of Buchenwald," no longer the doll-eyed ruminant, collapsed in a hysterical heap in an Augsburg courtroom, was carried off to a hospital for mental observation. Several doctors said she was suffering from temporary insanity caused by a guilt complex; others said Ilse was faking in an attempt to delay justice. The 43-year-old widow of Karl Koch, commander of the Nazi extermination camp, was on trial for the second time for crimes committed at Buchenwald where 50,000 died. Charges against her: instigating the murder of some 35 German inmates, instigating the attempted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Very Special Present | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

There are eleven people in "The Three Sisters" with clearly defined characters. By the end of the third act, nine have been shown to be suffering almost unbearable agonies, the tenth is a first-class bitch with a bad inferiority complex, and the eleventh is a happy men. During the fourth act he gets...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

...bred trollop who is driven sadistically insane by her husband's absolute incorruptibility. Wherever Christopher shows up-in government offices, in country retreats, even in the mud of France-he finds Sylvia there, turning men's minds against him. As a woman, Sylvia is probably the worst bitch in 20th Century fiction, and scarcely credible. But as a symbol of merciless revolution against old, established order she is the core of Ford's social tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncle Toby on Kanchenjunga | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...that, bald, 62-year-old Congressman Lanham leaped to his feet. "Damn son of a bitch!" he shouted. "Black son of a bitch!" With fists clenched, he raced around the committee table. Bespectacled, 59-year-old Attorney Patterson held to his witness seat. Lanham broke past two attendants before a pair of Capitol policemen managed to grab him. Subdued, Congressman Lanham returned to his place, abruptly adjourned the hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gentleman from Georgia | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

Rand's neighbors were not so easily fobbed off. They proceeded to make the bitch-owning newcomer's life miserable by tossing an occasional brick through his windows and trampling his neat garden. Rand complained to a newsman on the neighboring island of Guernsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Medieval Monopoly | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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