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Word: mongoloid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...segregated by sexes (boys in a gymnasium, girls in McCarthy supporters' homes). In keeping with McCarthy's own austerity, the kids largely eschewed beer drinking, though one group of New Yorkers nearly came to grief in a Rochester bar: a local tough announced that "McCarthy is a mongoloid idiot," but was soon buying beer for the earnest young proselytizers on the simple strength of their arguments and jovially warning them to "drink it or wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CRUSADE OF THE BALLOT CHILDREN | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...carbon monoxide chambers at an in sane asylum and other isolated institutions around Germany-all dedicated to the task of eliminating the weak from Hitler's society. Questionnaires went out to every mental hospital in the nation; doctors were required to designate for T-4 all schizophrenics, mongoloid idiots, microcephalies, hydrocephalics, epileptics, and even patients suffering from simple senility. All physicians were required to advise T-4 of the births of retarded children; midwives were paid two marks (500) for each handicapped baby they turned in to Hefelmann's office. Each serious case was earmarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Painful Purgative | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

Later, races were defined according to "types." There were the blond Nordic type, the dark Spanish type, the Semitic, Negro, and Mongoloid type. But individuals who differed markedly from the type--dark-haired Scandinavians, for instance--could not adequately be classed under this system, and the type system was eventually rejected...

Author: By J. MICHAEL Crichton, | Title: Controversial Scientist Claims Racial Differences Arose Early | 2/14/1963 | See Source »

Johnson, a one-legged veteran of World War II now on desk duty, loved David as much as he did his older sons. But David, with oblique eyes and clubbed fingers, was a mongoloid-born an idiot (thanks to some quirk of nature not yet understood). When Johnson pressed him, Dr. Berridge said David had little chance of learning anything more difficult than feeding himself and using the toilet, no chance of ever earning a living. Johnson wondered aloud, in his agony, what would happen to David when he and his wife were gone. What would this incubus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Quality of Mercy | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

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