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Word: nigger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long, hard day, and nerves were frayed as the surgeons hurried to get out of the operating room. Even so, a surgeon trained in Cuba was shocked to hear a colleague bark at a male scrub nurse: "Get out of my way, you Cuban nigger!" The surgical nurse was an exile who had been a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Havana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors in Exile | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...British club, Fielding-convinced that Aziz is innocent-defends him against the noble hysteria of whites who think that one of their own has been insulted by a nigger. He is ostracized and must turn to be Indians in the town, who are enraged over Aziz's arrest. This club scene is not as well handled as others, with the exception of an eloquent speech by Mrs. Moore on the terrifying echo in the caves...

Author: By Joseph L. Fratherstone, | Title: A Passage to India | 1/15/1962 | See Source »

...audience had a particular question. "I'm not much bothered about niggers coming into that park of ours," he told Hanes, "I can take care of myself. But what I want to know, Mayor, is, does that no-trespassing order keep me from going to the park with my little boy and shagging a few fly balls now and then?" Hanes, a onetime football and baseball star at nearby Birmingham-Southern College, smiled. "If it were me and my boy, I think I just might slip right over rather than deny that boy of mine the sort of pleasures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: That's What'll Happen | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

...back of the head and knocked me down and said, 'You smart son-of-a-bitch, I been wanting to get my hands on you for a long time.' I said, 'Why you want me for?' 'Y' said, 'You is a nigger who is buying new cars and we can't hardly live. I'll get you yet.'" When Brazier was arrested again five months later by the same officer, Brazier's wife related: " 'Y' then said, 'I told you I would get you.' James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Dawdling on the Corner | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...flashlights, and forced them at gun point to leave their bed and stand naked in the center of the living room. The officers roused the six Monroe children and herded them into the living room. Detective Frank Pape struck Mr. Monroe several times with his flashlight, calling him 'nigger' and 'black boy.' Another officer pushed Mrs. Monroe. Other officers hit and kicked several of the children and pushed them to the floor. The police ransacked every room, throwing clothing from closets to the floor, dumping drawers, ripping mattress covers." The officers were not punished, although Monroe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Dawdling on the Corner | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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