Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They'll never again get to appreciate how stunning Back Bay looks at night, or how beautiful the crimson, golden and orange foliage looks now that the leaves are beginning to change color," Murkerji said...
What is most sobering, not to say appalling, is to find no fewer than seven pages of entries devoted to the wretched N word. Its earliest recorded use, in 1574, was spelled niger, early modern English meaning "black in color." There was a time--hard to believe--that the term was considered inoffensive. Over the years, it evolved a huge number of variations, all pejorative, but not, apparently, until the 20th century did it become so execrable a term of opprobrium, especially among whites. Ironically, as Lighter says, many blacks use the N word as an "affectionate, ironic, jocular...
...advisory board meeting that was part of President Clinton's yearlong Initiative on Race, Bobo addressed the question of "whether America is moving toward becoming a genuinely 'color-blind' society or remains deeply polarized by race," he said in his speech...
...much better chance of finding a match in an Asian-American because, as executive director for the Asian American Donor Program Cheryl Louie said, "just as we inherit our eyes, hair and skin color, we inherit bone marrow in the same manner...
West advocated the mobilization of racial interest groups to combat racism. He also said that the "color-blind idea hides and conceals what we're up against...