Word: kike
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Worst of all is the man down the road, who refused to let his child play with Stern's ("No playing here for kikes"), and who gave Stern's wife a push that sent her sprawling and may (or may not) have allowed him a look beneath her dress. Fighting the "kike man,'' as Stern thinks of him, becomes a constant obsession; he takes to worrying all day about whether he will have the courage to drive home from the station by the route that leads past the man's house. And when he does...
...novel's only important lapse is its denouement-the fight with the kike man, which is written as if Friedman were trying to compose an allegory. When the man clobbers him on the ear, Stern "thrills with joy at still being alive," then feels "a warm shudder of sympathy for the man, who had been unable to knock him unconscious with the blow." He walks bloodily home, purged at first, then puzzled to find that the old fear of his enemy down the road is beginning all over again...
...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...
...Gold Coasters will probably start Harry Levy, Dave McElroy, Joe Donald, and Jack King in the backfield. Tom Crump and Kike Pizitz are scheduled to start at the ends...
Over the years, the editors met frequently, debated what to do about words of prejudice, such as nigger and kike (nigger got in, with the crisp warning: "A substandard term"). Finally, the most specialized new words went out to consulting experts for definition. One of the new dictionary's "youngest" definitions (written by Historian Hans Kohn of Smith College): iron curtain-"a barrier created by censorship, prohibition of free travel, etc , to isolate Russian-controlled territory from outside contact...