Word: scab
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...STOP MICKEY MOUSING AROUND WITH OUR W.G.A. Last week they carried giant-size pencils and a banner in front of the Manhattan offices of Orion and Columbia Pictures. Line crossing is taboo. Says a writer: "This is a company town, and if word gets out that someone's a scab, they'd be barred from the guild for life...
...York's Mayor Edward Koch wants to call it quits. He stood in front of two East Side cinemas last week, yelling "Scab!" at those who were bold enough to pay the admission. Nobody listened. Broadcast News was a sellout and Nuts was not. The message: people pay to see the films they want to see -- and can't be paid to see the others. Indeed, the mayor broke his own boycott to see Ironweed, which, he complained to Variety afterward, "wasn't even worth...
...husband to Annie -- best kisser in Albany -- and a father to Billy and Peg. That didn't work out either, so he hit the road and fell into the arms of Helen Archer, a singer who became a sod. There was some trouble with the law too: that scab he had killed, and a life on the run that has finally slowed to a stumble. Now Francis is an alcoholic hobo on the sad side of 50. He wanders the Albany streets on a Halloween night in 1938, cadging free meals and hoping to make his peace with the phantoms...
Speaking for more than one regular on more than one team, Dallas Linebacker Jeff Rohrer had sworn, "If some scab is in my locker, I'm going to toss his stuff right out in the middle of the floor." But no clothes or fits have been thrown. And the air is almost as clear as the linoleum. In the aftermath of the football strike, pickets, defectors and replacements are cohabiting fairly well...
...most noticeable damage has been done in Dallas, where the first man through the picket line was Co-Captain Randy White. "Captain Scab," Tailback Tony Dorsett called him. In the next instant, threatened by the fine print in his contract, Dorsett followed. Quarterback Danny White too. "White's a weenie! We want Sweeney!" the fans clamored. Tired of decay, they actually preferred the rhinestone Cowboys, led by a small and appealing Doug Flutie- type, Kevin Sweeney. Repaying Tom Landry for a lopsided replacement loss three weeks ago, Philadelphia Coach Buddy Ryan gleefully ran up the score last week...