Word: bitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary medicines, $3 to $6 for injections (more and better vaccines are coming out), $5 for tooth-cleaning ($7.50 with tartar scraping), $50 for cosmetic surgery to make a dog's ears stand up. Spaying runs from $20 (for a cat) to $35 for a bitch, more if the patient is over a year old. Most vets can be induced to make house calls (though they discourage them for the same reasons as M.D.s), charge $7 to $15. The little black bags they carry contain the same gadgets and remedies as those of their M.D. colleagues. In some areas...
suit, You son of a bitch...
Shades of Emmet. Yet Casement was also writing to Irish friends about "Anglo-Britannic swine," about "the Bitch and Harlot of the North Sea." What had happened to Casement? Author MacColl suggests that some snub in the Foreign Office probably set Casement on his devious course, for he was an "oick," i.e., a social outsider. Given the man's pride, ambition, quixotic brilliance and genuine Irish patriotism, this theory is as likely as any other. Yet most of the details of Casement's attempt to win Irish independence were absurd. When he went to Germany...
...while Evening Moscow claimed that its real name was Zhuchka. Most papers finally agreed that sputpup was a female named Laika after its breed. But, though they use the word regularly in covering dog shows, newspapers and v:ire services were not so indelicate as to call it a bitch. City-room funsters showed less restraint in gags about the contents of the next Sputnik (a fireplug) or a quote from Laika's earthbound boy friend ("Someone up there loves me"). After perpetrating such lines as "The chow jumped over the moon" and "How the mighty Laika rose...
...went to the University of California, fell in love with a fellow student, and at 19 told her father that they were getting married. He flew into a rage, threw them out of the house and shouted at her in the street as she fled: "You lousy little bitch! You'll never play two notes again without...