Word: mongolian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bohemian. he was its gruffest voicer of strong opinions. "I know why there are so many pretty gals in New York," he once said, "all the ugly ones are in college." He dismissed Picasso's work as "kin to the nasty scrawls chalked on alley walls by underprivileged Mongolian monster boys...
...personal translations of the Soviets' words- which, rough as they sounded in their own interpreters' translations, were at times rougher still in the original. Stevens' skill was particularly helpful on words like ublindki-used by Khrushchev to describe the West Germans-which could mean "abortions" or "Mongolian idiots" or other terms far worse than some other translators used...