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Word: nigger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Loy Harrison: "A big man who was dressed mighty proud in a double-breasted brown suit was giving the orders. He pointed to Roger and said, 'We want that nigger.' Then he pointed to George Dorsey, my nigger, and said, 'We want you, too, Charlie.' I said, 'His name ain't Charlie, he's George.' Someone said 'Keep your damned big mouth shut. This ain't your party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: The Best People Won't Talk | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Banded together in springless trucks and dusty cattle cars, the rubber troops began their trek. Some turned out to be vagrants and rogues who brawled and thieved. Foreign-Legion-like, these seldom asked each others' names, got along with boondock handles like Negrao (Big Nigger), Bexiginha (Pock Face), and Bichhv ho (Little Bug). When Brazilian rubber officials let them go unfed, the men broke away and foraged for themselves. Soon they were met at stopping-places by town police, who threw them into stockades until the journey continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Lost Army | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...Supreme Court Clerk Thomas Quitman Ellis and 66-year-old ex-Congressman Ross A. Collins-were campaigning hard. But Bilbo paid no heed. Instead he howled a warning: "The white people of Mississippi are sitting on a volcano. . . . We are faced with a nationwide campaign to integrate the nigger with the social life of this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Prince of the Peckerwoods | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce is the greatest nigger-lover in the North- except Old Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Yep, Old Lady Roosevelt is worse. ... In Washington she forced our Southern girls to use the stools and the toilets of damn syphilitic nigger women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Prince of the Peckerwoods | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Passion for Whites. He ranted of white supremacy: "The nigger is only 150 years from the jungles of Africa, where it was his great delight to cut him up some fried nigger steak for breakfast. . . . Over in Georgia a pambly-wambly governor named Ellis Arnall has sold his state down the river. There are 200,000 niggers registered and Georgia has gone to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Prince of the Peckerwoods | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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