Word: biased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tugman stated Tuesday that the local chapter of SAE had gone on record against bias in a national SAE convention last summer...
...group suggested a program by the colleges themselves to eliminate discrimination, together with legislative action, wherever necessary, to outlaw racial or religious bias...
...were doubts and scruples." Had the South been able to make a clean break with its past, the evil might have been exorcised. But gnawed by memories of its defeat and provoked by harsh meddlers from the North, the South gradually transformed "the Negro question" into a fanatical folk bias, coloring its segregated religion, its sex attitudes, its every moment in life...
Standing stolidly, his feet apart, his chin jutting out at the old, defiant angle, he cried: "If the government of Britain is entrusted to us at this crisis in her fate, we will do best for all, without fear or favor, without class or party bias . . . but with the clear and faithful simplicity that we showed in the days of Dunkirk . . ." An thony Eden, Churchill's deputy, also echoed wartime urgency: "We can promise only hard and challenging times...
When President Truman signed the present law in 1948, he specifically condemned its inadequacy and obvious bias, and urged Congress to revise it at the first opportunity. A bloc of Republicans and Southern Democrats has just thrown one opportunity down the drain. Perhaps in January, with a larger number of Senators interested enough to attend, this mistake can be rectified...