Word: bitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turner led the nervously smiling children through a gauntlet of epithets ("nigger-lovin' son of a bitch") to the school, left them there, headed back through town. Suddenly his way was blocked by three husky men. One grabbed him. He twisted, ran headlong into another, broke away, dodged across the street and was caught again, just a few yards from one of Clinton's two polling places. Under a storm of fists, Turner fell back against a car that was soon smeared with his blood. Then he went all the way down. Others, including two hysterical women, joined...
...claim that merde is an expression of affectionate farewell is to rank it with Owen Wister's injunction to smile when saying son of a bitch...
...leading singer in Athens' National Opera Company became ill. Maria was invited to take over the role of Tosca on 24 hours' notice. Backstage before the show, she overheard a male voice saying: "That fat bitch will never carry it off." With a shriek of rage, she leaped at the speaker, tore his shirt and bloodied his nose. Maria sang that night with a puffy eye. But she got raves from Athens critics...
...began screaming and groaning and throwing themselves on the floor." In the schoolyard at lunchtime the swains stood around her three deep, and every afternoon after that there were a dozen bikes stacked along the curb outside her house. The neighbors were soon in a snit about "that little bitch." Norma Jeane was in a daze. "For the first time in my life people paid attention to me," she says. "For the first time I had friends. I prayed that they wouldn't go away...
Wife Mieke, a teacher of Latin and Greek and no lawyer, was not cowed. When other Dutch lawyers refused to defend Jungschlaeger in such circumstances, she took over the case. Indonesian mobs threw garbage at her, chanted "Dutch bitch" when they saw her. But Mieke Bouman doggedly carried on, and has become a heroine in The Netherlands...