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Ellwood, a professor at the Kennedy School since 1980, is the author of "Poor support: Poverty in the American Family." In the book, Ellwood proposes to replace the cur- rent welfare system with efforts to encourage work and responsibility...
Mary Yuhfil, a respected Asian American journalist, was referred to as a "yellow cur" and a "slant-eyed bitch" by Jimmy Breslin, a colleague...
...face in coffee shops while passing through Northwestern timber towns, the local people just stare and glare. Many of them recognize him from homemade wanted posters hung in sawmills or have seen his name on banners with slogans like KISS MY AX, ANDY. Lumberjacks deride Kerr as Andy Cur or Andy Cull (a term for a worthless log). And after putting away a few beers, some loggers have even called him from tavern telephones with death threats...
...geographical establishment and the millionaires who ran it, so Cook set out on his own. Before long Peary was slurring Cook with the comment that the Arctic "brings a man face to face with himself . . . If he is a man, the man comes out; and if he is a cur, the cur shows as quickly...
...attorney represent a person he knows is guilty? Can you put a defendant on the stand when you know he's lying? It may be obligatory within cur system," he said...