Search Details

Word: slurs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Democratic party leaders dutifully pronounced their outrage at the latest Administration slur. But few even took the time to rebuke Meese with specifics. Most forgot to point out, for example, that some 20 million Americans depend on food stamps to eat and that tens of thousands more--who don't qualify for federal assistance thanks to the Administration's draconian eligibility requirements--have been forced into soup kitchens. But it must have been party politics that prevented Democrats from giving Reagan's men credit for being so egalitarian about whom they go about alienating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Meese That Roared | 12/13/1983 | See Source »

...addition, the BSU demanded that the administration investigate two other isolated incidents that appeared to have racist overtones: a poster that had been scrawled with what appeared to be a racist slur, and a prank involving several freshman that may have had racist overtones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Middlebury Recovers from Apparently Racist Incidents | 10/20/1983 | See Source »

...yacht race, and the Yanks are taking it with all the grace of a baby deprived of its rattle. I am sure that most Americans do not give a damn about the race or the "tin pot" that is the prize, but I wonder how they feel about the slur this episode places on the name of Americans and their country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 19, 1983 | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...residents and the decline of traditional businesses. "Progress," says Gibson, "is maintaining the status quo." Moreover, black mayors often attract limelight that leaves them less margin for unnoticed error. Grouses Hatcher: "Blacks still don't have the right to fail as whites do without its becoming a slur on the black race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Protest to Politics | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...Dunster St. fortress may have divined my intention, or (more likely) deemed me insufficiently literary. At any rate, I was never invited to join Robbed of the chance for snubbing and reverse snubbing in one stroke. I vowed not only never to step inside but also to slur the Signet on every appropriate occasion. They are pledges I have kept...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Four More Years | 6/9/1982 | See Source »

Previous | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | Next