Word: slurs
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What was sad in the world he did not superficially gainsay; what was good in it he did not cynically slur; and all which was to him personally enjoyable, he gratefully took to his heart...
...Yellin of the Harvard golf team phoned The Crimson last night to announce in a happy drunken slur a Crimson victory over Penn and Columbia at Rockland Country Club, Sparkill, New York...
...petitions, which will be circulated today, take exception to any slur on the "teaching capacity and scholarly ability" of the men. They point out that Walsh's course on Labor Problems has grown in enrollment from 44 to 127, and that last year's students in Sweezy's course in Economic Theory approved the course so much that they voted to continue for another term with no extra credit. April...
Know Nothing. As the fumes of Watergate continued contaminating the atmosphere of the election year, there were other hints of "fun." The Washington Post reported last week that a letter to New Hampshire's Manchester Union Leader accusing Edmund Muskie of a racial slur against French Canadians may have been written by Ken W. Clawson, deputy director of White House communications. A Post reporter, Marilyn Berger, claimed that Clawson told her that he had written the note, which said Muskie had condoned the epithet "Canuck," an insult to New England's French Canadians. The letter, published over...
...recently boasted that he would become the first Olympian to win six gold medals, he needs all the relaxing he can get. Not today. A passerby happens to spot him on the green and shouts, "Hey, Jew boy, you aren't going to win any gold medals!" The brutal slur is delivered by one of the youth's comrades on the U.S. men's swimming team...