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Word: kued (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called himself "the man that Denver loves to hate" and delighted in insulting his listeners. He liked to boast that his enemies included the Ku Klux Klan, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the American Nazi party and a legion of crank callers. His Denver radio station, KOA, even kept a list of people who had threatened his life. Thus when combative Radio Talk-Show Host Alan Berg, 50, was gunned down in his driveway late one night last week, many wondered at first which of his listeners was the killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denver: Gunning Down a Talk-Show Host | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...also tend to write with a lot of exclamation points and use inflammatory phrases. I am an aspiring journalist, so this style of writing seems distasteful. Talking with one as he tried to sell me Young Spatacus, for example, I had to point out that the phrase "white-hooded Ku Klux Klan scum" was too strong a tone to take; it was also redundant...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: A Viable Alternative? | 5/9/1984 | See Source »

...wonders first why a Confederate flag would be flying in San Francisco, then why someone didn't tear it down before. The Confederate flag, long carried by Ku Klux Klan members on lynching, bombing and terrorist attacks against Blacks and progressive whites has been a symbol of incitement to racist violence since the Civil...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: A Viable Alternative? | 5/9/1984 | See Source »

...could be damaging to their careers." He later stated that Farrakhan's apparent death threat was "counterproductive" and "wrong," but he complained that the pressures to disavow Farrakhan were a "form of harassment" by the white media. Why not badger President Reagan to reject his endorsement by the Ku Klux Klan? Jackson asked reporters. The furthest Jackson would go was to demote Farrakhan from "surrogate" to "supporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pride and Prejudice | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...laws' children at some workable level of sanity and racial tolerance. She succeeds, it appears, with one, a hardy eight-year-old boy, and is on the point of failing with the other, a neurasthenic 13-year-old girl who wobbles in adolescent self-pity to ward the Ku Klux Klan, suicide or both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Invisible Men | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

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