Word: saxonizes
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...Jones, two English teachers at U.C.L.A., the whitewashing of the legendary West began with Owen Wister's The Virginian, published in 1902. In an age that self-consciously hefted the white's man's burden and deplored the racial defects of immigrants, Wister gloried in the virtues of noble "Saxon boys" who conquered the frontier. Having met few Negroes in his own travels out West, Wister could see no reason to sully the racial purity of his novel. Other writers were not so passive in their bigotry; Thomas Dixon wrote a popular novel singing the praises of the Ku Klux...
Novelists like Wister and Dixon made "Saxon pluck" a standard ingredient of best sellers. "The product was successful, and so it seemed foolish to vary the formula...
...Klan's goal in terms of Christian morality v. sin. The enemies of America, the Klan proclaimed, were booze, loose women, Jews, Negroes, Roman Catholics (whose "dago" Pope was bent on taking over the U.S.), and anybody else who was not a native-born white Protestant Anglo-Saxon. Many churchmen across the nation acclaimed the Klan's program, and in the South especially, Methodist and Baptist clergymen lent the K.K.K. massive support. It was not long before it blossomed into a mighty nationwide organization that claimed to number in its hooded ranks about 4,000,000 members...
...gone to Michigan and New York. Why? Well, first, that's where big business is. And second, the Cabinet, while long on brains, was somewhat short on politics. As a result, the Eisenhower Administration turned out, in the eyes of the public, to be almost exclusively Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, even though Eisenhower himself remained the idol of all elements in the country...
...excursion through the history, and past the astonishing universality, of the mother tongue. It may be enough just to discover why, from some hillbilly throats, it escapes as hit-that was how the English said it in Chaucer's time. Or that the perfectly good Anglo-Saxon verb clyppan yielded to a Norman import (embracen) and survives in English today only in the humble paper clip...