Word: blackleg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though Clay hotly denied Jacksonian charges that he had made a deal, he was soon appointed Secretary of State by Adams. Tempers ran so high that Clay fought a duel with John Randolph, who had publicly vilified the Clay-Adams alliance as "the combination of the Puritan and the blackleg...
Later, an icy wind swirled dust into a branding pen. Students rassled struggling calves to the ground, shoved a tube with a medical pellet down their throats, rammed a needle into their shoulders to vaccinate against blackleg and hemorrhagic septicemia, slashed their ears with the ranch identifying mark, burned a brand into their hips. Male calves were castrated, their testes dumped into a bucket to be served, fried in fat, as a dinner treat. Two ways to castrate male lambs had already been demonstrated: by knife, and by cowboy's teeth. Instructor Ernie Anderson, wearing blood-spattered Levi...
...Blackleg!" the shop steward (Bernard Lee) rages. The factory owner (Laurence Naismith), anxious to avoid unnecessary trouble with the union, is disgusted with him, too. When the strike ends, the men vote to send the hero to Coventry. Nobody speaks to him, nobody eats with him, nobody touches work he has touched. His best friend deserts him, his wife (Pier Angeli) gets hysterical, the company pressures him to climb down and apologize. The hero holds out, he hardly knows why. "If people can't be different," he mumbles bitterly, "there's no point...