Word: bitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient law on the island of Sark forbids anyone but the island's hereditary lord to own a bitch. The only bitch on Sark in the last few years belonged to Sibyl Hathaway, the hereditary Dame of the island. She died two years ago. At that time a mousy radio repairman named Ernest Rand decided to quit London for the quiet of the Channel Islands. Knowing nothing of Sark's quaint laws, he sailed to the island taking with him his seven-year-old terrier, Jip. Officials permitted Jip to land without question and six months later Sark...
Patton once said admiringly to another officer, as Walker was passing by: "There goes a fighting son-of-a-bitch." Patton himself had been described as a "purebred gamecock with brains," and he felt that Walker had satisfactorily absorbed his own battle philosophy. This was expounded in such Pattonisms, usually decked with profanity, as: "Never take counsel of your fears." "Don't worry about your flanks, let the enemy worry about them." "The way to get out of enemy fire is to advance...
...three-hour field trials, dogs are judged not only for the number of birds or coveys they find but on their speed, range and obedience, their thoroughness in hunting, their style and manners in pointing, and their steadiness under gunfire. Last year's national champion, a pointer bitch named Sierra Joan, performed beautifully; so did a Winston-Salem, N.C. dog named Fast Delivery...
...proved statistically in Professor S---'s Philosophy course that the American woman is a bitch.... Professor M--- reports that one night he was walking down Prospect Street (home of Princeton's social clubs) on a house party weekend. He noticed a boy and girl walking arm in arm, and overheard the male remark to his date, 'Don't you know that virginity is the most bizarre form of sexual perversion known...