Word: scabbing
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...soldiers to fire into a crowd of workers - that was what the Governor (I. V. Kochalov) did not like to remember. The growth of his fear, of the indignation of the people, and the hatred toward him developing for personal reasons in the minds of a governess and a scab, were originally thought out by Leonid Andreyev, Russia's great, mad dramatist and story writer. Director A. Protozanov seems to feel with Andreyev that psychology is, in the long run, more important to art than politics. Shots - the Emperor's aide-de-camp taking a dose of salts...
...made a full and specific explanation to German farmers over the radio, warning them against U. S. barley. The hogs developed the colic, it was explained, because the grain was tainted with a poisonous fungus, known to scientists as gibberella sanbinetti and to the U. S. farmers as "wheat scab...
...Crescent Mine, near California, Pa., picketers jeered and swore as usual at "scab" workers (mostly Negroes) filing in for another day's work. The Pittsburgh Coal Co.'s strong-arm men* jostled the picketers, bade them begone. A striker fired a shotgun. Two strong-armers roared with pain. The crowd dissolved, growling with satisfaction. The week before it had been a striker's woman who was hurt?trampled by a police horse. . . . Next time the California picketers assembled they were dispersed by tear...
...aphorisms, hymns, epithets and curses that are composed with such violence and passion. As a broad, general treatment, this book will serve very well. versy with labor leaders. He was naturally opposed to the "closed" shop; and on one occasion "gave labor a violent shock when he called "the scab' an American hero. Labor leaders, nevertheless, respected and even liked him." They could not help reacting favorably to his obvious sincerity, earestness and courage...
...been used for the tests on animal tissue. A tenth of a second's exposure for a patch of ear-skin had made the patch lose its hair and turn dark. Not for seven weeks did hair reap, pear. Another patch was exposed for a second. A scab formed in a few days, fell off taking the hair with it-and in two weeks a growth of new hair, white instead of grey and thrice as profuse as previously, sprouted...