Word: scab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...redeeming his unsavory hero; it does not quite come off, compared to the snarling realism and cool, street-corner observation that shapes the rest of this story of Ike-o's growing up. The raucous garbage heap of Sobaski's Stairway has been scraped off like a scab by the welfare state, but in this novel its aroma of gamy decay still hangs heavy on the Pittsburgh...