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...upheld his right to seek damages from a lower court on that basis. Wrote Justice Louis Burke: "Al though the slang epithet 'nigger' may once have been in common usage, along with such other racial characterizations as 'wop,' 'chink,' 'jap,' 'bohunk' or 'shanty Irish,' the former expression has be come particularly abusive and insulting in light of recent developments in the civ il rights movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Price of Prejudice | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...Never 'talk down' to any group or individual or engage in the use of derogatory terms such as nigger, boy, spic, wop, kike, chink, shine, burrhead, dago, polack, bohunk and the like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: Progress in Chicago | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...spit forth their hatred. Telling Poitier why he is a "nigger," Curtis says: "It's like callin' a spade a spade. I'm a hunky. I don't try to argue out of it." Replies Actor Poitier: "You ever hear tell of a bohunk in a woodpile, Joker? You ever hear tell of 'catch a bohunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 25, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...biggest disappointment-a play by Odets with Tallulah Bankhead as star. As the wife, Tallulah has her fine sultry and tigerish moments, but seems out of her milieu-much more like the daughter of the late Speaker of the House of Representatives than the wife of a bohunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...removed from that type of creature that plagues editors and other public people with "nut" letters. He has passionate grievances, Tom o' Bedlam's honesty and a spilling store of acrid Americana to relate. Son of Puritans, he was raised among "that prairie tribe, conglomerate of Dutchman, Bohunk, Railroad Irish and Indiana Yankee" in Nebraska and Kansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pretty Crazy | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

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