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Word: greaser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Narcotics. Drug addiction and all its byproducts may now be freely depicted, but only if damned on all counts. ¶ Bigotry and Prejudice. Miscegenation may now be handled discreetly, but anything inciting hatred among peoples is taboo. To be "avoided": the use of the words "chink, dago, frog, greaser, hunkie, kike, nigger, spik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Code | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...came to the U.S. from Germany when she was six years old. Harold, one of five children, was born April 13, 1907, at West St. Paul, Minn., where his father ran a 40-acre truck farm. He grew up on the farm, worked as a grocery clerk, bakery pan greaser and Pullman conductor to pay his way through the University of Minnesota, graduated from the law school with above-average marks in 1929 at the age of 22. The same year he married his school-day sweetheart, Esther Glewwe. They have two children, Glen, 16, and Kathleen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Administration: Mutual Security Director | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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