Word: slur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, in the Russian zone of Austria, Chief Editor Ferdinand Rieffler, of the People's Press, was convicted not for anything he had written but for something he had merely heard. At a public meeting a speaker cast a slur upon the Soviet Army. Rieffler failed to rise and voice an objection to the slur. His silence was held a crime to be expiated by four to ten years in Siberia...
...always considered myself a "Jewess" and always will. This is the first time I've ever heard that it's supposed to be a slur. To me and my friends it is a most acceptable word as long as it is not preceded by the word "dirty...
Negroes don't like "Negress" any more than Jews like "Jewess" and consider it a slur...
...Slur...
...Carl Childress [TiME, May 27] .is entitled to his opinion' of my article "The Conqueror" which you quoted in the May 6 TIME. He is not entitled to his gratuitous slur upon all chaplains when he refers to them as holders of noncombat commissions who came safely and comfortably through the war under the protection of combat soldiers. . . . Chaplains did hold noncombat commissions in that they carried no weapons. But they were assigned to every combat outfit in the Army, and had less protection than the average combat soldier since they did not carry weapons. Seventy-seven of them...