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Word: bitches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a few months of treading in waters that are too deep for him, the frightened young dog goes off with a bitch who offers to assist at the extravagant sexual scenes he finds comfort in. He soon sickens of her and of himself. "Wherever I arrive," he moans, "I find my life in flames." Then more soberly he states his true predicament: "I am moved in my heart of hearts by two convictions: that I can do no wrong, and that I can dp no right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aboriginal Calamity | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...Britain, and the State Department as "a branch of Downing Street." Far out in right field, Joe McCarthy announced in Milwaukee that the recall was "a Communist victory won with the aid of bourbon and Benedictine." Of Harry Truman he said in a press conference: "The son of a bitch should be impeached." Nebraska's Ken Wherry took to the air to ask: "Who got us into this war? This is Truman's war and General MacArthur, under orders of the Commander in Chief, has done his level best to end the war ... I have not seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Action on M-Day | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...crowd for a Young Progressive club meeting, began shrilling such comments as "President Truman is a bum," exhorted Negroes in a crowd of 70 to 80 people to fight for their rights. When a bystander said to a cop, "If you don't get that son of a bitch off I will go over and get him off there myself," the cop arrested Feiner, who was subsequently convicted of disorderly conduct. Ruled the Supreme Court (6 to 3): conviction upheld. Feiner's exercise of freedom of speech was "an incitement to riot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Liberty v. License | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...industry to manufacture children's wet goods." When he died of a heart attack at 44, hardly anybody went to the funeral home. One who did was his old friend Dorothy Parker. Taking the epitaph line from The Great Gatsby, she said, "The poor son of a bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Big Binge | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...seven weeks, concentration-camp survivors had paraded to the witness stand at Augsburg to accuse Ilse Koch, the "Bitch of Buchenwald," of brutalities. "Lies, all lies," screamed the red-haired widow of the camp's wartime Nazi commander. She had fits of hysteria, smashed up her cell, had to be carried from the courtroom. Doctors insisted that she was faking to avoid punishment for her crimes. Last week three German judges and six jurymen convicted her of inciting the murder of one prisoner, inciting an attempt to murder another. One of the most revolting accusations­that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Punishment | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

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