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Word: bitched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come clean." After hours of grilling in a conference room, she confided her guilt to one sympathetic editor, and the others were brought back in. As the ombudsman reported the scene, "Each editor hugged and kissed her. 'I'm sorry I was such a son of a bitch,' Woodward said. 'I deserved it,' Cooke answered. 'Yes, you did,' Woodward said." She wrote out her resignation and disappeared from the Post's payroll but not from its history. In Green's judgment, "the Post accelerated her success, and may have thereby hastened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: The Pulitzer Hoax-Who Can Be Believed? | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...neither Greek nor Hebrew, but checked his work with experts. The result is a vastly popular, very interpretative, always readable paraphrase. The Living Bible is sometimes pretty breezy ("It was Herod's birthday and he gave a stag party"-Mark 6:21) or shocking ("You son of a bitch!"-Saul to Jonathan in 1 Samuel 20: 30-changed to "You fool!" in recent printings). Scholars, including some of Taylor's fellow Evangelicals, uncharitably accuse the book of "excess," "blatant mistranslation," "deliberate distortion" and "theological bias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rivals to the King James Throne | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...those of the household. Morrison identifies Son's revelatory force with his unwashed body's smell which is powerful enough to wake a sleeping Jadine and to arouse her sexually, but horrible enough to mix with her fantasies a sense of shame comparable to that of a bitch in heat, taken by a pack of dogs turn by turn and then beaten in disgust by townspeople...

Author: By Eve M. Troutt, | Title: Ghosts in Black | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

...treatise on lust and betrayal. Frank Chambers (Jack Nicholson), is a small-time drifter with a record of petty crimes, who is being drawn into L.A.'s vortex out of sheer statis. As James Cain conceived him in the 1934 novel. Chambers is a sardonic son of a bitch with no past to speak of, and no future worth mentioning. On his way to the city, Chambers drops off at a roadside diner to scam a meal off the owner. The owner is a sleazy, belching Horatio Algier-type from Greece named Nick Papadakis. Chambers wants nothing to do with...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Knock, Knock | 4/11/1981 | See Source »

Nonetheless, Gaines has enjoyed swimming. "I may bitch and moan, but I wouldn't trade it. It's taken me to China. Hawaii. Germany--all over the world--given me a full scholarship to college, and made me friends forever...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Rowdy (raud e) (adj): Very Fast | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

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