Word: scabbing
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...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...
...document originally required that any kitchen or Dining Hall worker, union or "scab," who gave up his position should be replaced by an A. F. of L. member, provided one could be found inside 24 hours...
...heroism, the Commodore puffed vigorously and said: "I hope the tugboat strike will be over before the Queen Mary returns." And so he will go down in marine history as the first man to dock an Ocean liner without tags and in labor history as a most gallant scab...
...long existed a somewhat strained out-of-print friendship. In print, "Old Peg," ever scornful of anything that looks like uplift, called his friend "old Bleeding Heart Broun," "the fat Mahatma." Two months ago, Columnist Pegler jabbed a particularly tender spot. American Newspaper Guild President Broun was operating a scab shop, he wrote, because the Connecticut Nutmeg, of which Broun is one-tenth owner-editor, had hired a non-union reporter. Next week, from his regular page in the New Republic, President Broun heatedly denied he had anything to do with hiring, pointed out that the reporter had immediately joined...