Word: gaffes
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...that and the threat of more to come, Lewis had wired his union chiefs: "I do hope [the miners] immediately return to work." To make sure they did, Morison had got an 80-day injunction prohibiting Lewis from ordering another walkout. Now Morison was ready to put the gaff...
...Readers Anderson and Bouras stash the gaff: TIME, not written and edited exclusively for hep cats, always labels "hot jazz" as such...
...foreign policy exists, and that it is beginning to be both clear and firm: 1) play a strong hand in Europe, 2) check the spread of Russia's totalitarian ideology in Europe and Asia. And now a fellow Cabinet officer, apparently backed by the President, had blown the gaff: there was no U.S. foreign policy after all-just conflicting opinions...
...Slaughter. Newfoundland swilers are old hands at blasting and nudging their craft clear into the whelping ground. There the barrel man, high in the crow's-nest, spots the whitecoats. The ship runs alongside, the men grab a gaff (a pole with a steel hook on the end) and clamber overside. They race to kill the first whitecoat and bring back its tail to dip it ceremoniously in a glass of rum as a toast to a bumper trip...
Once in the patch, the slaughter begins. A sharp blow on the nose with the gaff kills the seal, a few deft strokes of the knife and the pelt is sculped off. All day long the killing goes on; the ice runs red with blood. At night the crewmen trudge back to cramped quarters aboard ship for a meal of seals' flippers, a mug of black tea. Then a night's sleep, fully clothed, a breakfast of "fish and brewis" (boiled hardtack), and off on the ice again. In a good day a sealer can sculp 120 seals...