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...respond with a four-letter word to them on the side. No 'Nigger, this' stuff or nothin' like that. I don't talk like that to people; I refuse to, even with all the 'cracker' stuff. I might grab a guy and say, 'You s.o.b., why would you be callin' me "cracker"? You got somethin' ! against me?' And then he'll think about it, and he'll say, 'Well, no, man, but . . . ' You see, he'll cut back on the hostility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Cop, Black Ghetto | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

Rufus:"Who you callin 'Thir', twit...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG: | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...late," said the American-accented voice at the other end. "That's all right, mon," allowed the lady. "You'll tell 'em at the dock?" the American continued. "No trouble, mon." The conversation became progressively more surreal until the Statian woman inquired: "Where you callin' from, mon?" "Saudi Arabia. Where are you, for Pete's sake?" "St. Eustatius, mon." "St. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Still Pristine Caribbean | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...show. As we go to press, the place seems to be Currier House, where the show originated. The production, based on the opera by Peter Townsend of The Who, is about a youth who goes deaf, dumb, and blind after witnessing his mother's infidelity; eventually he finds his callin as a pinball player extrordinaire. It's all laden with heavy Christ symbolism...

Author: By Scott A. Rozenberg and Troy Segal, S | Title: The Best of all Possible Locations... ...Pinball's Better in a Fishbowl | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...Callin 'everybody honey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country's Platinum Outlaw | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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