Word: chinke
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...only explanation for Bush's and Clinton's inaction must be the fact that intervening in Bosnia reminds them of Vietnam. Vietnam is the chink in the United States' armor that prevents us from acting as we should. It is time that the United States realized that while we learned valuable lessons from Vietnam, the "Vietnam syndrome" has paralyzed us to the extent that we are afraid to act even in situations which demand intervention...
...most well-publicized of these was a remarkwritten on the Lamont Library poetry board lastyear. On a poem with an Asian-American woman'sname written under it someone wrote "Die, Chink...
...Shelor and CSX did not give up on Otisca. For the past few months they have been negotiating a deal that would take advantage of a small chink in the monopoly armor of big utilities: IPPS, independent power producers, which are allowed by Congress to produce electric power and sell it to utilities. IPPS are the junkyard dogs of the energy business, producing power any way they can under the rubric of cogeneration and operating without many of the constraints placed on public utilities...
...Harvard campus itself is not immune to such anti-Asian incidents. In the past couple of weeks, the words "fuck you, chink" have appeared on the Lamont Library poetry board...
Radio talk-show host Cliff Kincaid twice called Connie Chung, the prominent Asian-American television reporter and anchor, "Connie Chink" while on the air, and he claimed that is "common slang and 'perfectly acceptable language...