Word: whirr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ever since, there's been a slow burn of controversy, finally exploding into the kind of racial brush fire that's become familiar in American political discourse. Here's how it works: 1) a semi-obscure black figure says something outrageous or anti-Semitic; 2) pundits pontificate, word processors whirr; 3) one by one, black leaders are forced to condemn the offending words and the offensive speaker. It happened to Professor Griff, formerly of the politically charged rap group Public Enemy. It also happened to Farrakhan, when he called Judaism a "gutter religion." Now Muhammad's words have...
...terribly conservative folks, not really the types to haunt the living. Even a raven or a black cat would have sufficed, but my hopes of spotting something even moderately spooky soon dwindled. At midnight there were no church bells or demons, only the beeping of my watch and the whirr of passing taxis. Ethan A. Vogt...