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Word: slurs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After members of the band informed Houck that he had offended Love, he wrote a letter of apology in which he said he had not intended his actions as a racial slur...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Student Charges Racial Harassment | 2/5/1988 | See Source »

...food, lady. I'm out of work." Frightened, the woman clutches her bag under her arm like a football and quickens her pace. Demar follows for a few steps before giving up. "My God, it's just awful," the woman says afterward. Demar offers no apologies, explaining with a slur, "You gotta get their attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can You Spare a Dime - for Bail? | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

While the investigation into campus perceptions was prompted by a racial slur spray painted on a campus building last spring, the study uncovered other kinds of prejudice that some people fear will overshadow the issue of racism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

President to Decide on Discipline For Students who Broadcast Racial Slur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

...same kind of right. In Taylor Hackford's Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, which chronicles the preparation and performance of Berry's 60th-birthday concert in St. Louis last year, tempers simmer as Berry keeps running Keith Richards, the concert's music director, through the opening guitar slur for Carol. And yet at the end of their concert -- which features guest shots by Linda Ronstadt, Eric Clapton, Etta James, Robert Cray and Julian Lennon -- Richards can feel satisfied that he provided a fine backup band for his loner-hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chuck Berry: Still Reelin', Still Rockin' | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

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