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...expresses the general prejudice against lefthanders. A lefthanded compliment is actually an insult, the Latin word sinister (left) has taken on a, well, sinister cast, and the French word gauche, which means left, is used to describe a socially awkward person. In Moslem societies, the left hand is considered unclean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Characteristics: Left in a Right-Handed World | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...Protestants and still fewer Jews practice rhythm. In addition, Orthodox Jews abide by Niddah, the Mosaic law which prescribes abstention while a woman is "unclean" (Leviticus 15:19-24). Some rabbinical teachers have extended this time to a total of seven days after the end of menstruation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contraception: Hazardous Rhythm | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...good white against the bad colored. It's the pure and powerful . . . against the vile and unclean troublemakers. It's racial violence," one student said...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: Effect of Integrated Bussing Programs Studied With Soc Rel 120 Group Method | 2/19/1968 | See Source »

...preferred her limericks unclean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 6, 1967 | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...heed sensible advice until it was too late. And he fatally fractured the image of the Czar in the mind of the masses. The imperial pair saw a calumniated saint in Rasputin; the people, in the words of a monarchist member of the Duma, saw "the beastly, drunken unclean face of a bald satyr from Tobolsk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nicky & Alicky | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

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