Word: chinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is one glaring chink in Navy's armor that the Crimson can capitalize on, it is free throw shooting. Through its first five games of the season, the Middies have shot a miserable 56.6 percent (77 of 136) from the line. If, at the very least, the Crimson can manage to keep the score close entering the final minutes of play, free throws could potentially be the difference down the stretch...
...telling the black guy to calm down and consult a dictionary, Williams accepted Howard's resignation." Buckwheat paused. "In a city like Washington this could start an epidemic of oversensitivity. You could have an explosion the next time somebody says there's a 'nip in the air' or a 'chink in your armor.' We've got to inject some common sense into this STUPID fuss...
...advice a newly certified scuba diver may hear is this: don't dive the Red Sea first, unless you want to be disappointed with every other site. For diversity of coral life per square foot, no other place matches it. Preserving that supremacy, at least in the tiny chink of the sea that belongs to her native Jordan, is the goal of Princess Basma Bint Ali, a cousin of King Hussein's. Princess Basma, 28, is president of the Jordan Royal Ecological Diving Society, which works to protect the delicate undersea world in the Gulf of Aqaba off Jordan...
Most people can't begin to talk about minorities because they think that the policy of political correctness is an imperative statement. That is, that the policy flatly says, "You cannot call me a 'Chink.'" I would rather consider the policy a conditional statement: "If you call me a 'Chink,' you have to take responsibility for it." Because people want control of their own utterances, they obviously resent feeling gagged when they want to speak. What I think political correctness should be trying to do is to make people more conscious of what they say. Language, after all, is power...
Three weeks ago, it seemed as if Janet Reno may actually have found a chink in Microsoft's armor. The attorney general filed suit against the software behemoth, claiming they were bullying computer manufacturers into accepting Internet Explorer as part of the Windows 95 bundle ? in violation of a 1996 court order. But now the empire ? through its legal minions ? has struck back...