Word: bitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sentimentalists who had seen Maude Adams or Helen Hayes sweeten the role did not find the Maggie of their memories. "Maggie isn't so virtuous," says Siobhan in her rich resonance, the native Gaelic just a thin inflection away. "She can be a bloomin' bitch. I could play her all mealymouthed, the poor little rich girl, but I don't see it that...
...beach by the insensate cruelty of the Spanish tide"; Seumas Cullen, the Dublin painter who established his reputation on one painting, which he exhibits year after year; a poison-pen writer named Peadar, who vents his spleen on a local landlady by addressing a note to "The Biggest Old Bitch in Ballyknock." In a classic display of Gaelic futility, an Irish museum hangs the Chaos canvas upside down ("We're a young country," pleads the director), and Tommy deserts the revolutionary game for a job in a travel agency engaged in selling Ireland's hobnailed charms to rich...
...literary beat. She is doubtless viewed with mistrust by the large school of Irish writers who, in her phrase, "feel that it is a splendid thing to be a writer and that little or nothing is added to it by writing." She has been "affectionately described as a bitch" by at least one correspondent who had suffered an ill-defined grievance in one of her articles. Judging from past form, she fully expects her latest books to catch it from all corners of the "boggy little land." But among less partisan readers, they are sure to rank...
...about to ditch his boss as a Senate committee begins to ask unpleasant questions. But the sight of his employer cruelly beset by Senators is too much. Logan's cry, as he unsheathes his blowgun and prepares to stand off the foe: "The little son of a bitch is going to need help...
...dope tablets; Maverick found it, ate the meat, left the pellets on the ground. They mapped out the streets he used, staked themselves out in concealment with lassos, but Maverick, 80 Ibs. of muscle and speed, trotted new avenues. They even set out a trap baited with a boxer bitch in heat, but Maverick and the bitch tore the trap apart and loped happily off together to the hills...