Word: bred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself called everything from a liar and a traitor to a coward and a thief. In a final paroxysm, Napoleon described him as a "silk stocking full of merde." Without turning a hair, Talleyrand left the room, remarking only, "What a pity a great man should be so ill-bred...
...Cliffies gathered into four living rooms last night to discuss today's all-college referendum on the extension of liberal sign-out privileges to sophomores "in a well-bred manner, but with underlying hostility," as a freshman in East House...
...They are fine heifers-deep-bodied, fine animals. They are the product of Santa Gertrudis heifers bred to Hereford bulls-a fine combination." A young Mexican cowhand drove the cattle from atop a ponylike animal. "It's not a pony at all. It's a Galiceno horse, a direct descendant of the horses the Spaniards brought from Europe. They've got the lines of a thoroughbred in miniature. Look...
...dirty-minded Harvard students are apparently ill-bred, licentious, decadent, lusty, oversexed, akin to the lower animals, undisciplined, and bent on destroying female virtue and jeopardizing stable society, the New England Journal of Medicine suggested in an editorial this week...
...Ophelia has men in her madness. In her last scene, she flings her dress up over her head with sexual ardor before a group of soldiers. "This vivid contrast to her initial purity," says Zeffirelli, "shows that in the mind of every middle-class well-bred girl the thought of sex exists in its wildest form...