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Word: bitched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well get none at all; politicians feared that they may have to tell when their speeches are ghosted. If absolute honesty prevails, observed New York Herald Tribune Critic Marie Torre, TV men may have to confess that Manners the butler is not a midget, that Lassie is not a bitch dog after all, and they may have to use real bullets instead of blanks on Westerns. ("This," she deadpanned, "we'd welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Purity Kick | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...Nixon has quite a temper of his own. Once, in a test at law school, asked a question about the President of the American Bar Association, he replied: "If he is anything like his predecessors who opposed the confirmation of Justice Brandeis, he is a son of a bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Nixon Saga | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...tied an asafetida bag around my bitch's neck, would it keep male dogs away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bark with Bite | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Anne Edwards remembers well the counsel an editor gave her in 1947 when she began her column for the London Daily Express: "Write it so that every woman will say, 'What a bitch Anne Edwards is.' " For the next dozen years, blonde, blue-eyed Columnist Edwards was as sassy as she could be for Lord Beaverbrook's bustling Daily Express (circ. 4,084,603). Her weekly 8-in. column grew to a half page as she worked over tempting targets, from Labor's formidable Dr. Edith Summerskill ("Flossie bang-bang") to Queen Elizabeth; she once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Femmes of Fleet | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...After two crowded days in which judges looked over a total of 2,544 entries, Judge Thomas H. Carruthers III bestowed the Westminster Kennel Club's best-in-show designation, dogdom's topflight honor, on a saucy, 4½-year-old, English-bred miniature poodle bitch, Ch. Fontclair Festoon. "The poodle was in beautiful form," said Carruthers, "full of quality, and moved perfectly." Flushed with success, Festoon will be retired from the show ring to the business of bearing high-priced pups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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