Word: chink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exposed. ¶ Narcotics. Drug addiction and all its byproducts may now be freely depicted, but only if damned on all counts. ¶ Bigotry and Prejudice. Miscegenation may now be handled discreetly, but anything inciting hatred among peoples is taboo. To be "avoided": the use of the words "chink, dago, frog, greaser, hunkie, kike, nigger, spik...
According to the book, the captain's first order of business is to deliver an address to the populace, explaining to them what democracy is and that they have it. Fisby explains. Everybody cheers. The captain is delighted-until his interpreter, a picturesque chink in U.S. defenses who is known as Sakini (Marlon Brando), explains that during 800 years of foreign occupation the Okinawans have learned to cheer whoever is in charge, no matter what he says. The captain is badly shaken -and so begins an alarming assault on American theory by Okinawan practice, a shameless corruption of democracy...
...Chink. In Dallas, officers of the 49th Armored Division of the Texas National Guard complained to police that prowlers kept entering the division motor compound and taking joy rides in jeeps...
...prey in a proper state of torpor, the caterpillar-hunting wasp sometimes shoots the caterpillar 13 times, once for each segment. That deadeyed Annie Oakley, the beetle hunter, can bowl over her hard-shelled victims with a saddle shot that pierces a tiny chink in the beetle's armor and penetrates precisely to its central nerve-control station. One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world. Ducking away from the praying mantis' gaping arms, she zooms back and forth like a pendulum behind the giant...
Said the spokesman, referring to the woes of boss-ridden Philadelphia Republicanism: "We're back on our two-yard line, but I think I see a chink of light through the line and a way to go all the way - 98 yards for a touchdown." The way was for 34-year-old "Thach" Longstreth to carry the Republican ball for mayor against hard-hitting Democratic District Attorney Richardson Dilworth...