Word: wop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another question of audibility, Nixon denied that he had ever called Judge John Sirica a "wop." He said that what he heard himself say on tape was that Sirica was "the kind I want...
...career at age twelve selling fake "Parker" pens. Soon Eighth-Grader Vincent was pulling in "seventy or eighty bucks a week ... twice as much as my teachers." Flushed with the thrill of "the score," he passed up high school to study the practical wisdom of hustlers like "Willie the Wop," "Cigar Face Joe" and "Abe the Louse." During the Depression, Swaggi boasts he saved $10,000 in one year. By age 23 he had hustled his way through more than a decade of crime in four cities under two aliases...
...grandson Ralph to build a new world rather than achieve his individual desire for advancement and money. On the other side, Morty embodies his sister Bessie's values as the self-satisfied capitalist who pats his overfull belly draped in his fancy trousers as he complains, "Every Jew and Wop in the shop eats my bread and behind my back says, 'a sonofabitch.'" To complete the group there is the gentle failure of a father who lives in the past, and the small-time gangster with a heart of gold who can't express his more tender feelings...
...Nixon reportedly call "The Wop...
...irreverence, he left intact a good many four, five, ten-and twelve-letter specimens of Anglo-Saxon earthiness. These fell before Nixon's own blue pencil. So too did some ethnic slurs used by Nixon. According to the New York Times, the President referred to Judge Sirica as "that wop," spoke of "those Jewboys" in the Securities and Exchange Commission, and described L. Patrick Gray III, then acting FBI chief, as a "thick-necked mick." According to CBS, Nixon used the word "Jewboy" in referring to Daniel Ellsberg. The White House denies that Nixon used any of those terms...