Word: jap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might be called "the Fat Jap Syndrome," in honor of Spiro Agnew's jocular question aboard a campaign plane in 1968, when he observed Baltimore Sun Reporter Gene Oishi asleep in his seat and inquired, "What's the matter with the fat Jap?" What was intended as bluff bonhomie immediately appeared to be racial callousness...
Driesell had problems during the next winter. His varsity won only half of their 26 games. But he managed to recruit 6-11 Tom McMillen, the most sought-after high school prospect in the nation at the time. Len Elmore, a 6-9, 230-pound guard, and ballhandler Jap Trimble, and they formed the core of his unbeaten freshman squad last year. And even last winter, when his varsity was still only putting together a 14-12 record and a sixth-place finish in the ACC, he had sophomores like guard Howie White, one of the best field generals...
...Tokyo forced Ike to turn back. Initially, the plans for the Emperor's tour called for no presidential appearance at Anchorage. Tentatively, Mrs. Nixon or Julie and David Eisenhower were being considered to meet the royal couple; even Vice President Agnew was a possibility, despite his famous "Fat Jap" remark made during the 1968 campaign about a newsman from the Baltimore...
...California court upheld his right to seek damages from a lower court on that basis. Wrote Justice Louis Burke: "Al though the slang epithet 'nigger' may once have been in common usage, along with such other racial characterizations as 'wop,' 'chink,' 'jap,' 'bohunk' or 'shanty Irish,' the former expression has be come particularly abusive and insulting in light of recent developments in the civ il rights movement...