Word: caw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rural demagogy in the '30s and '40s, was a genius of flavorsome insinuation. "Do y'all know what ((my opponent's)) favorite dish is?" he would ask slowly of his "God-fearin', 'tater-raisin', baby-havin' " constituents. Then in a burst of disgusted indignation: "Caviar!" The word came out caw-vee-yah. "You know what caviar is? It's little black fish eggs, and it comes from Red Russia!" A certain amount of family-values rhetoric is mere caviar denunciation...