Word: chinking
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...Wong was Chinese, at a time when East Asians were no more likely to become Hollywood stars than someone from India or Africa. She knew, from seeing The Perils of Pauline serials with the villainous Wu Fang, or D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms, about a sensitive, opium-sotted "Chink," that Chinese were portrayed in films as notorious criminals or emotional cripples, and that, anyway, they were almost always played by white actors. Hollywood may as well have had a sign on the studio gate reading No Chinese Need Apply. But Wong did; she was merely following her dream...
...gift card came from LendingTree, which used the card, as it always does, to rebate half the fee it collects for referring business to brokers around the country. In this case, the rebate chopped the total commission on Getson's deal from 6% to 5.5%--an important chink in the Old Guard's armor, says Peter Sealey, a professor of technology and marketing at the University of California, Berkeley. "Slowly but surely, technology is coming into play in the real estate market," he says. "As it does, brokers will lose their stranglehold on the process. Commissions ultimately should...
...because of Elmbrook’s evenings of reflection and my time there that the chink in my Protestant armor was finally exposed last fall. In a bit of friendly Christian challenging, on Sept. 27, 2002, my friend Frank Altiere charged that “within two years” I would “feel the blessed chrism [of Catholic confirmation] drying on [my] forehead.” More than a tad annoyed, I countered that I would “never be Catholic,” and listed some specific Bible verses that I thought proved salvation...
...said her worst experience with discrimination occurred in a Los Angeles parking lots, when a woman who she said “looked like a scarecrow on crack” angrily called her a “chink...
...Statesman neared bankruptcy after paying over ?200,000 to defend the action. The total bill included ?1,001 in damages to Major, his legal costs and the costs of the distributors and publishers accused of disseminating libel. With Major's past now in the open, there is a chink in his armor. "Mr. Major is now an admitted adulterer and therefore the sting of the libel was true," says libel law expert Mark Stephens. "We could see a situation where he's not only going to have to return the money, but the case could be reopened because...