Word: scabs
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...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...
...left over from the magazine's serialization of Fail-Safe. Leaders negotiate "in the shadow of nuclear war" and make "the live-or-die decisions when the chips are down." As cliches mount, the reader half expects the next phone call to be answered by old Scab Cooley. But instead it is McGeorge Bundy who hears a CIAman's cryptic, spy-befuddling report of the Soviet missiles in Cuba. "Those things we've been worrying about"; says the CIAman cleverly, "it looks as though we've really got something." There is even room to mention...
...with roads, factories, universities, even with an atomic reactor. But very little dribbles down to the peasant, who wants education for his children, medical care, agricultural aid, honest officials and, most of all, protection. On a farm in a coastal region, a mother explained the neglect of her scab-ridden year-old son. "It costs 14? to go to the village and 14? to come back. The doctor charges 70? and then I must buy medicine. We're too poor...