Word: scab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...date which the Boston Symphony's Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky had made for this winter would not be filled: conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, as one of eight quests. The Philharmonic is fully unionized, and Petrillo won't have it led by a man he considers a scab...
...decided to hold student elections in classrooms, make everybody vote. Result: anti-Communists captured 17 of 20 places in the student council. Day of the election, leftists staged a peace demonstration. At an appointed hour, demonstrators suddenly blew whistles in college corridors, rushed into classrooms shouting: "Don't scab on peace." Promptly suspended were the demonstration's sponsors-the Peace Continuance Committee and American Student Union...
...scab-made hose don't seem...
...still more artillery fire. Thus dryly at first, in terms of headquarters thinking, Romains begins to prepare the reader for the terrific attack that is to come. His camera is still high enough to take in the whole front: "a continuous scratch over which [the troops] formed like a scab and at every point of which they faced the opposing lines with a ceaseless crackling of fire, a lethal trembling, as though something tormented, burning, and unapproachable had become installed as a natural feature of the landscape." The camera narrows to young Jerphanion, who first appeared in the first...