Word: epitheted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confront each other, however, is not very friendly. Even if the pro-choice groups do not shout and yell, they will no doubt be provoked by the pro-life groups. They will be called "baby killers" or worse. And it's difficult to resist responding to that kind of epithet...
...Yellow" is a commonly used label (and often an epithet) for East Asians. While the Asian-American community at Harvard is largely East-Asian, it is not exclusively so; Southeast Asian and South Asian American are present in sizable numbers as well...
...stellar play brought the American League championship back to the Big Apple. He hit a patch of ice in the World Series, however, eeking out only one hit in 22 at bats. This prompted the first of Steinbrenner's many diatribes against his star, in which he coined the epithet Mr. May, a contrast with the high priest of pressure and Yankee immortal, Reggie Jackson, a.k.a. Mr. October...
Reid, who is Black, charged that on one occasion Manager of Operations for Security Robert J. Dowling did not discipline a guard who used a racial epithet...
...when the Secretary-General suggested, in an interview published in the New York Times, that racism might be a factor behind a torrent of criticism from the British press. "Maybe," surmised ) Boutros-Ghali, it was "because I'm a wog." Western diplomats were shocked at the insinuation and the epithet; but many Third World envoys quietly nodded their assent, reflecting the deep North-South rift within...