Word: slurred
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...slur was used indiscriminately to denigrate South Asians in general, a practice that Asani said is becoming more common in the United States...
Cindy L. Rodriguez ’02, president of the guide’s publisher Harvard Student Agencies, said HSA had not known that “Paki” was a racial slur when it decided to keep the previous year’s blurb for this year’s edition...
Several SAA members said they were astonished and angered that the term was used, although they acknowledged that the slur was not intentional...
...that Crosby would care. His worldview was famously imperturbable (say the word as Bing would, with the blowfish p's and b's). He?d most likely respond to the rare slur or setback with a blithe "Well, did you evah?" Crosby's last words, before the heart attack that killed him in 1977, at the conclusion of a foursome on a Madrid course, were "That was a great game of golf, fellas...
...once knew a man who was a heroic drunk. He left mess and destruction in his wake - broken glasses, smashed furniture, bounced checks, bitter and exhausted wives. His motto, which he stole from the British classicist Benjamin Jowett, was a line he would slur grandly to the barroom after 10 or 12 drinks: "Never apologize! Never explain...