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Word: coons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Cabinet Memoir, to be published next year by the Free Press, Bell blasts unidentified "mid-level right-wing staffers at the White House" for a more disturbing characteristic: a proclivity for "sick humor and racist cliches." Examples: references to the late Martin Luther King Jr. as "Martin Lucifer Coon" and comments during discussions about the Middle East that Arabs were "sand niggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington: Bell Tells A Sorry Story | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...that his tax statement showed he earned $4,200 last year. He indicts the state wildlife-and-fisheries commission for "selective enforcement," saying, "They don't cut the Cameron boys' nets off." Next he attacks his fellow shrimpers: "The Vietnamese stick together. Even the coloreds stick together. These coon asses, though, it's every man for himself. They could have said I wasn't out of line. I wasn't. But they just watched, and I got my nets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: Gone Shrimping | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...Sales are going pretty well this year," Coon said. "It's a good sized crowd, but only average for a sunny day at the Sprints...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Just Another Day in the Sun | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

Near the boat house, huckster Bill Coon sold Eastern Sprints t-shirts from his own table. For only seven dollars, you could get a lasting memento of your time in the circus...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Just Another Day in the Sun | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...have to think (and it annoys me) if I wish not to use this form. To Mr. Wise such usage is a headache. I feel as much pity for him as I do for an ex-Klansman who finds it hard to stop using the word "coon." Christine Webber...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Studies | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

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