单词 | whites-only |
释义 | > as lemmaswhites-only P10. whites-only (also white-only): reserved for white people; (also) designating a policy endorsing exclusively white access, etc. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1929 Chicago Defender 26 Jan. ii. 2/2 Since some sort of hospital is necessary, and since the ‘for whites only’ sign is still hung from many American hospitals, the separate one is the only alternative offered St. Louisans.] 1945 Chicago Defender 14 Apr. 2/5 That the ‘whites only’ policy of the war department is still being practiced is further evidenced in an official notice. 1961 Ebony Oct. 80/2 Freezing out the clerk and crowding out the drivers was a minority's way of retaliating for all of the ‘white-only’ want ads it had read and for all of the unread application blanks it had filled out. 1968 Listener 18 July 86/3 In 1958, the Court of Appeal supported the Musicians' Union in their boycott of a whites-only dance-hall in dear old Wolverhampton. 1971 Guardian 29 Sept. 19/2 In Salisbury [Rhodesia], there are perhaps half a dozen ‘Whites Only’ signs—mainly on public lavatories. 1980 Eng. World-wide 1 i. 55 In the 1950's Nassau's whites-only schools, cinemas, and restaurants were desegregated. 2002 Sawubona (S. Afr. Airways In-flight Mag.) Sept. 85 Founded on a whites-only policy, the town became the promised land that would save Africa's ‘white tribe’ from extinction. < as lemmas |
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