Word: bleached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Terrified parents in the area are now insisting that their daughters wear their long hair up, bleach it, or have their dates at home. Some girls have decided not to date until the killer is caught, and others are adopting unusual evening wear: loose sweaters and large caps to disguise themselves as males. "I'm scared," said one Queens girl. "I used to kiss my boyfriend in front of the house...
...itself to investigation. Bowman says the recruiter told her the firm once had "a gal like you" working for them--"she was just like you, only shorter"--and that the last black who worked for them now works for Clorox--"Isn't that funny, a black working for a bleach company?" John H. Morrison, the recruiter, categorically denies the offensive remarks. The matter, then, could only be decided in terms of Bowman's word against Morrison...
...token woman is a black Chicana fluent in Chinese who has borne 1.2 babies (not on the premises, no childcare provided) owns a PhD, will teach freshmen English for a decade and bleach your laundry with tears, silent as a china egg. Your department orders her from a taxidermist's catalog and she comes luxuriously stuffed with goosedown able to double as sleeping or punching bag. --From The Token Woman, by Marge Piercy
...School student, who charged a recruiter, John H. Morrison of the selective Chicago firm of Kirkland and Ellis, with telling her, among other offensive remarks, that "the last black to leave (the firm) went to Clorox...isn't that funny, a black man going to work for a bleach company...
According to Bowman, the recruiter, John H. Morrison, told her "the last black to leave [the firm] went to Clorox...isn't that funny, a black man going to work for a bleach company...