Word: chinking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Nixon's opening to the East is about to create a booming market in Washington for China experts. Universities expect a surge of enrollment in courses that already bear such campus nicknames as "Chink Think" (Chinese philosophy, at Yale), "Rice Paddies" (introduction to China and Japan, at Harvard) and "What's My Line?" (China's evolution under Communism, at the University of Michigan...
...California court 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...