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Word: bitched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...philosophy, the poet paints the dusty jailhouse and the bumptious mayor of Batavia, N.Y. He records the hairs in the disappointed husband's stew, quotes upbeat statistics from the Reader's Digest. But with the same acceptance of reality he observes the growling of the mastiff bitch as dark spirits pass, repeals the laws of gravity at will and marks the fall of the dead ("And every soul, it passed me by, like the whizz of my cross-bow"). The Sunlight Dialogues has almost as high a mortality rate as The Ancient Mariner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Magic Realism | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

...Japanese wrestler." His quip fails, it hardly describes Juliet Mills. Not even plump, despite the insistence of the script, she single-handedly rescues the film from the early indulgence it grants Lemmon, allowing him to rant and rave and make monologue about the "grey haired son of a bitch." "Love is for filing clerk's, but not for the head of a conglomerate," he argues...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Realemmon but Sweet | 12/19/1972 | See Source »

...healthier than ever. Jarring additions, such as Didi's case of the clap, or the segment where Pozzo and Lucky grope vainly boringly, Hairiedly for each other on the floor of the stage, are absorbed in the larger effort to deal with "the way it is on this bitch of as earth...

Author: By Pill Patton, | Title: Mating Them Up For Godot | 12/1/1972 | See Source »

Also under investigation, primarily for accepting payoffs, were 100 policemen who visited the trailer. In one passage on the tape, Vario is heard to remark as a cop approaches the trailer: "Here comes that greedy son of a bitch." Then, as the cop enters, Vario says warmly: "Hiya, pal!" The bugging of the trailer was supposedly made public, in fact, because a high-ranking police officer on the take tipped off Vario and his cronies to the telephone taps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Mafia Bug | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

...sheer unattractiveness, nothing quite matched Tiriac's attack on James Van Alen, a patriarch of American tennis. Objecting to what he thought was razzing, Tiriac stalked over to the stands, threatened to emasculate Van Alen and called his startled wife a bitch. When Smith shook hands with Tiriac after their match, he told the Rumanian: "I've lost a lot of respect for you in the last three days." Said Ralston, summing up the U.S. reaction to the tawdry affair: "I still can't believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rumanian Rhubarb | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

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