Word: slurring
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...warn't nothing but my sparring partner. Four times, four times I'll be champ. $20 million. Biggest thing ever. $30 million. I'm the champ, he ain't nothin' but a chump!" The man at ABC has had enough. With Ali still screaming in the backround, the slur won't go away, the scene shifts to Scott Ledoux, who is complaining about absorbing a thumb...
They, and everyone else, should listen to her. Her voice, alternately angry, calm, sardonic and compassionate, spins healing magic. The term chinamen is a literal and figurative slur, a squeezing to gether of words for the purpose, intended or not, of diminution. China Men puts the pause back where it belongs. Maxine Hong Kingston, a woman warrior indeed, stares down her men in equal combat; ultimately, this granddaughter, daughter and sister helps them win the respect their dignity deserves. -Paul Gray...
...vibrated through the White House corridors when Joan Kennedy archly told a reporter that she was better equipped than Rosalynn for life in the White House because she was a "sophisticated lady" and held a master's degree in education. But in obedience to the presidential edict, the slur went unanswered...
...nation-some 4,600 black elected officials in all. But housing is still abominable, health care uncertain and, despite some reforms, too many big-city blacks, particularly the youths, view a white policeman as their natural enemy. The discrimination may be as direct and blatant as a racial slur, or as amorphous and difficult to fight as the hiring record of white employers: the unemployment rate among blacks with college educations is higher (27.2%) than that of white youths who are high school dropouts...
...have shown us in only one dimension. It is my contention that for every "bomb designed" you will find a potential solution to an energy problem; for every "crackpot" you will find a good friend; for every "racial slur" you will find a rewarding cultural exchange; for every high school "loadie" you will find a National Merit Scholar; for every teen-age beer bust you will find a complete absence of major crime; and for every "psychologically abused child" you will find many who are hugged like Teddy bears...