Word: slurs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This is not what a mother wants to hear on the phone from her son serving in the Army in Iraq: "Well, I got my Purple Heart." Those words, delivered in a morphine slur, gave life to Jocelyn Perge's second worst nightmare about her son Jim Beverly. Perge's ex-husband Charles Beverly felt his stomach drop when he got the same call from Jim, who had suffered shrapnel wounds to his face, hand and knee in the Dec. 10 grenade attack on a humvee. Then Charles experienced a powerful sense of relief. "He was on the phone, talking...
...public, further diminishing her likability quotient. Her LQ suffered another jolt last week when Cindy Spengler, G+J's chief marketing officer, testified that O'Donnell had called her a liar and added, "Liars get cancer." (Spengler is a breast-cancer survivor; Rosie later confirmed and apologized for the slur.) By the end, G+J had to be wondering, Why didn't we just start a magazine called Leona...
North Fork, the unlikely site of the Virgin's visitations, is a gritty loggers' town where bumper stickers say KILL DOLPHINS and guys in the bar slur the N word while watching Monday Night Football. Its human landscape is one of stoned teenagers, bewildered immigrants, messed-up drunks and eco-fanatics. Anyone hoping for the delicate earnestness and lyrical settings of Guterson's earlier worksomething more like his best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars--is in for a rough surprise. If much of the story of the solitary "visionary," as he calls Ann, updates the classic witch trials...
...Internet chat rooms were inflamed over an orgy involving 500 Chinese prostitutes and 400 Japanese businessmen reported by state press to have taken place in the southern city of Zhuhai. Many Chinese assumed the businessmen were not merely indulging in vice, but had held the orgy as a premeditated slur...
...black-and-white photographs and memories of a time when checking off “White” on a Navy identification card was the ticket to a future free of racial shackles. Silk’s reinvention of his own identity is such that blame for a racial slur cannot prod him into telling the truth about his perfectly constructed life. These long years of ironic sacrifice are what Zuckerman chronicles in an attempt to weave together a Forrest Gump-like pastiche of recent American history...