Word: buggered
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...Golf Crash Sean Gregory starts his article "Crash Course" [Oct. 6] with the words "Golf carts are fun little buggers." If Mr. Gregory or the editors of TIME had checked a dictionary for the correct definition of the word "bugger," your readers would not have been subjected to such cheap, inaccurate and irresponsible journalism. Peter Woodward, MIERLO, NETHERLANDS
...Johnson - but then the disarmingly frank Conservative who became London's mayor in May doesn't have to face voters again for four years. "I say stuff Skegness," Johnson wrote in his column in The Daily Telegraph last week, scorning the seaside town in England's east. "I say bugger Bognor," he added, knocking another in the south. "I am going to take a holiday abroad, and in my view it would be absurd, hypocritical and frankly inhumane to do anything else...
...skyscrapers are made of compacted trash cubes. The planet has become one huge junkyard, as if all humanity were a rock band that had made a shambles of a hotel room, then just strolled out. The only remaining sign of organic life on Earth is that unkillable little bugger, a cockroach...
...verbal altercation took place Saturday at France's annual farmers' congress, where the president was rebuffed during a round of glad-handing by an older man, who said, "Don't touch me, you make me dirty." Visibly piqued, Sarkozy twice ordered the man to "bugger off," the second time adding the insult usually reserved for locker rooms and school yards. Though the incident took only seconds, the exchange was immortalized on camera and uploaded to the web site of French daily Le Parisien, where it had been viewed nearly a million times by Monday morning. Against a background of sliding...
...first published details of the mission. He expressed grave concerns about the army's handling of the incident and other Special Air Service Regiment patrols in Afghanistan. He said after the patrol he had been pressured to write a report which reflected badly on the patrol commander. "That poor bugger the patrol commander has been through hell and back," he said at the time...