Word: scabbing
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...plot concerns a President of the U.S. (name and period not stated) who has just nominated Bob Leffingwell for Secretary of State. Bob is in trouble-a controversial liberal and accomplished public servant, he is a hero to the eggheads but unacceptable to conservatives. Old Senator Scab Cooley of South Carolina is frankly out to get him, and he finds his weapon when evidence links Leffingwell to a Communist cell in his past...
...another. Some 15% of the membership on the Inquirer drifted back to work. Helped by a strike of the Teamsters (TIME, June 23) that bottled up the Inquirer's distribution, the Guild grimly put pressure on the defectors. Soundtrucks, parked near their homes, blared: "Your neighbor is a scab. He has sold 650 striking co-workers down the river." Pressure of a still grimmer kind was applied to Inquirer Movie Critic Mildred Martin, widow of Newsman Linton Martin. She got one phone call from a man who said: "This is Linton. Come down and see me soon...
...wish to assure you that it is not an everyday sight-"a tight-lipped child followed by other children shrilly jeering, 'Your father's a dirty scab...
YOUR father's a dirty scab!" is the shrill cry often heard these days on the quiet streets of Sheboygan, Wis. The gibe of one child against another is being echoed at the adult level as a U.S. Senate committee probes one of the longest, costliest strikes in U.S. history, the United Auto Workers four-year-old strike against the Kohler Co. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The "Almost Sinful" Strike...
...vandalism: slashing automobile tires, scattering nails in driveways, hurling glass jars filled with paint through house windows. Sheboygan's hate reaches even to the children: an everyday sight is a tight-lipped child followed by other children shrilly jeering, ''Your father's a dirty scab...