Word: slur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...softie. The crowd, many of them from Willie's home town of Hartford, Conn., booed and jeered the champ, cracked that Willie had given far less than his all. New York Boxing Commissioner Robert Christenberry had no patience with such speculation: "Any evil talk is a slur on a once-great fighter who took the beating of his life. The result speaks for itself. This is the end of an era. You can't hold back youth." The boxing commission's doctor, Vincent Nardiello, wrote a finis to Willie's career: "His reflexes are gone...
...while a member of the Communist party. Many headlines mentioned McCarthy either with or without naming the witnesses. All mentioned either Furry's and Kamin's admission of communist activities, or their refusal to give names of Communists they knew, or both. Some newspapers, incidentally, took the opportunity to slur M.I.T. rather than the University because Furry worked on the radar project at that institution rather than here...
P.W.s last summer. At this, the American remarked: "What utter nonsense! What utter garbage! How silly can you get?" And when the Reds repeated the slur, the Wall Street lawyer replied in his best courtroom style: "Your charge is untrue. I therefore treat it as a notification that you want these talks recessed indefinitely...
...bonds held by its own agencies), and 2) it counts as income the excess of receipts over outlays for Government obligations such as social security. Because of these differences, the red ink is less in the cash budget than in the administrative budget-which is why politicos tend to slur over their deficits in the administrative budget and talk instead about the cash budget...
...Seldom have I heard Nyasa Africans called "niggers" and only occasionally "coons"by Nyasa Europeans [Sept. 14]. Your wording is a slur on both races. The usual is "native," "muntii"(person), "munt" (person abbreviated), though even these are beginning to suffer under the "locals' " aggravated persecution/inferiority complex so that "African" or "Nyasa" are generally taking their places...