Word: slurs
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...bussed kids lining up in one line and the white kids arriving on foot in another, and I'll tell you if there had been one rock thrown or one racial slur escaped, we would have seen a fight they'd never stop talking about. But they stood silent, and it was calm, and the kids did it," Wineger says...
Coleman, a black who is regarded as a topnotch Cabinet member and no pushover for the transportation industry, sensed a racial slur in Nader's remarks. Angrily, he termed them "bigoted." He later apologized. Nader did not, and even the Washington Post, a longtime fan, headlined its editorial WINDBAGS AND AIRBAGS...
...husband was the first to notice her problem when he found her in the kitchen trying with difficulty to open a jar of coffee. She also had trouble moving her left arm and left leg. The left side of her face was partially paralyzed, which caused her words to slur. When these symptoms became evident, she was rushed by ambulance to Long Beach Memorial Hospital, 36 miles up the coast from San Clemente. Riding with her were her husband and her daughter Julie, who, with her husband, David Eisenhower, had spent the holiday weekend visiting the Nixons...
...player, but merits every bit of effort required. Bernard Shaw once wrote, in a letter to the actress Ellen Terry, "Leontes is a magnificent part, worth fifty Othellos (Shakespear knew nothing about jealousy when he wrote Othello), as modern as Ibsen, and full of wonderful music." The slur on Othello was poppycock, but Shaw was otherwise right on the mark...
...been outraged to read. As an example, we cite the case of one Morris K. Udall, who, on the day before the Massachusetts primary, was accused of having voted for the censure of Rep. Michael J. Harrington. A courageous bottom-of-the-last-page correction of this well-meant slur noted that Udall would have had difficulty participating in a House censure vote that never took place. Finally, the integrity of the Crimson reporter is beyond reproach: this is evidenced by the fact that even when stories are shown to be based upon a framework of total fabrication and misinformation...