Word: uppityness
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Untouchables are regular victims of brutality. In remote villages, "uppity" harijan women are sometimes paraded nude through the streets and then raped. A scuffle between an Untouchable laborer and some caste Hindus in Tamil Nadu State on Christmas Day in 1968 led to an arson attack on an Untouchable ghetto...
Then into town comes a strange breed of Nigra (Sidney Poitier). He's just passing through, but at home in Philadelphia he is a "top homicide expert" on the police force. Steiger sees him as a perfect scapegoat, but the widow, recognizing the incompetence of Steiger's bumbling...
With only a week to go in the campaign for Mississippi's Democratic gubernatorial nomination, most of the seven candidates are working over the usual villains-the Supreme Court, the Federal Government generally, New York City, "uppity niggers," etc. But some new notes have also been heard.
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the use of contraceptives spread, although their illegal status gave birth to such nervously silly euphemisms as "uppity-cuppity" (for diaphragm) and it was considered boldly wicked to admit using them. All the while, Margaret Sanger fought futilely for a federal "Doctors' Bill" that...
Only 30 himself and a Southern graduate ('60), Hill coached for two years at Florida A. & M., where he trained Sprinter Bob Hayes, the current world record holder (at 9.1 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash. Two years ago, Hill returned to Southern to build up his alma mater...