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Word: spic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somehow Betty survived-always short of breath and often blue in the face from oxygen starvation. She finished high school, married, got a real-estate and insurance broker's license and ran her business from a spic-and-span home. After several miscarriages, she raised an adopted daughter. But all the time she was growing steadily weaker. By mid-1965 she had wasted away to 69 Ibs. She did not have strength enough to leave her room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: And Now for Golf | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...Never 'talk down' to any group or individual or engage in the use of derogatory terms such as nigger, boy, spic, wop, kike, chink, shine, burrhead, dago, polack, bohunk and the like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: Progress in Chicago | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...President of the U.S. In Detroit, he learned that the Salvation Army mistakenly expected him to attend a dinner honoring the 28th anniversary of its local residence for women. Nixon cut short a midafternoon press conference, dashed a dozen blocks across town for a quick, handshaking inspection of the spic-and-span quarters, then hurried on to keep another engagement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: On the Road | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

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