Word: scab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...electronic microprocessor to fine-tune the motor while it is running and hooked up a hydraulic accumulator to store unused energy. The Colorado State team has used graphite and Kevlar in the frame to shave 600 Ibs. from an already light Audi. The name of this entry is Scab I, for "Screw the Arab bastards," the team cheerfully proclaims...
...State Liu Shao-ch'i. Mao felt that Liu and his pragmatic allies, of whom Teng was foremost, had created highly bureaucratic "independent kingdoms" based on a system that was unresponsive to the needs of the party and the people. In 1965 Liu was denounced as a "renegade, scab and traitor," expelled from the Communist Party "forever" and sent to prison, where he reportedly died in 1973. (There are rumors in Peking that his reputation may be cleared posthumously...
...young junior high teacher. One teacher who crossed the picket lines had his windshield broken and his tires slashed. He kept replacing tires, only to have the replacements cut as well-ten in all. "My students consider me a hero," he says, "but the teachers consider me a scab." When one school secretary asked a teacher if he had seen one of his nonstriking colleagues anywhere in the halls, he looked at her blankly. "Who?" he asked. "I don't know that name...
Everything about Kross is big--listed in the football guide as 6-5, 249, he has a massive frame and a large, pleasant face. And if his size doesn't clue you in on what he does for extracurricular activities, a nagging scab on the bridge of his nose tells you that he's been butting heads in the trenches...
Ball's mulish and ruthless uses of power are legend. Rather than bend to union demands in 1963, he took a nine-year strike on the Florida East Coast Railway. He ran the line with scab labor, and managers trimmed featherbedded jobs and produced the road's first profits since World War II. Another time, when Ball decided that the taxes of several Florida counties were too high, he simply paid half the bill; only Dade County had the temerity to sue for the rest...