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Word: bitches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life is precious; but this griping fellow, so like one of his own flyer sons lost in the Pacific, is a special concern. Talking to Brubaker after the rescue, the admiral asks: "Still bitter?" And he gets the answer: "Sometimes I'm so bitter I could bitch up the works on purpose . . . Nobody supports this war . . . Why don't we pull out?" To this and other questions Brubaker gets simple answers: "That's rubbish, son, and you know it. All through history free men have had to fight the wrong war in the wrong place. But that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sacrifices of the Few | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...Munich, the crimes of Use Koch, "Bitch of Buchenwald," were still catching up with her. Already serving a life sentence for concentration-camp atrocities, she was classified a major Nazi offender by a German de-Nazification court. Her sentence: two years in a work camp and confiscation of all her property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 15, 1953 | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Handsome Brenda Lewis as Regina Hubbard handles her role of super-bitch Tallulah Bankhead's in The Little Foxes) with the command of an actress as well as with a soprano of range and authority. But Regina's musical high point is the third-act Rain Quartet, which for lightness and inventive charm beats anything on Broadway for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Comeback | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...Begum's orders, the senior maid inserted half an ounce of red pepper into Bano's rectum. The little girl swelled up and soon became unconscious. "Let that daughter of a bitch die," said the Begum. Three days later, Bano died. Her body was buried clandestinely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: The Cruel Begum | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...Misbegotten, written in 1940, got its premiere in Columbus, Ohio in 1947. Moon for the Misbegotten opened to what the trade calls mixed notices, but played to good houses in Cleveland, St. Louis and Detroit, although Detroit demanded that such key terms as "whore," "bastard," "son of a bitch" and "blonde pig" be censored out. Dissatisfied with its casting, O'Neill refused to let the play be produced on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lament for the Loveless | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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