Word: scabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the SCAB can no longer hope to get the Communists to register as an organization, it can still persecute individuals whom it believes are party members. Furthermore it is free to take action against "front" groups and "infiltrated" organizations. Already the SACB has ordered two dozen such groups to register, including the International Union of Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers and the United Electrical Workers...
...dangers of the SCAB's powers are multifold and its benefits to internal security are imperceptible. As the courts have already held in the case of the Communist Party itself, the McCarran Act is a patent violation of the Fifth Amendment. This logic clearly should protect any organization or any individuals that the SACB might order to register...
...began to lift, revealing shiny new buildings, glistening overhead superhighways and a network of fine, wide roads that is already speeding up traffic considerably. Four superexpressways slash like sword scars through 62 miles of the once impenetrable capital, while 25 miles of new subway bore beneath the random, rickety scab of slums, pachinko parlors and noodle shops that is home to most of the city's population...
Detroit was a conservative place in the 1930s. All the auto companies, but mostly Ford, gained a sorry renown for the driving tactics of their harsh foremen and production speedups. The secret policeman, the stool pigeon and the scab nourished. When these tactics were protested by Ford's only son, Edsel, the old autocrat gradually withdrew from him, both professionally and personally, and gave increasing powers and recognition to his devious little chief of "internal security," Harry Bennett, a former sailor and sometime boxer...
...seemed to be clean, and it healed quickly. But within a month, abscesses formed under the skin on the back of her finger and hand. They were not painful, but they were unsightly, and occasionally one of them burst and oozed a sticky fluid until a new scab formed. The woman's 18-year-old son cut his finger on the same tank, and soon he too had an abscess on his hand...