Word: rag-tag
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Many of the women who have attended its night-time meetings are in their 50s and 60s. As Margaret A. Mills, president of the Graduate Women's Organization, has noted, the meetings have not been of the "general rag-tag graduate students pissed off at something" variety...
...wasn't your general rag-tag graduate students, pissed-off type meeting," Margaret A. Mills, president of the Graduate Women's Organization, said of the Wednesday session...
...starters, the sabre squad, which many had picked to be Harvard's most effective team at the Easterns, failed miserably in the Saturday morning trials. The Crimson sabre men won only 18 out of 36 bouts to finish in a disappointing tie for sixth place with a rag-tag Navy squad, 11 substantial points behind sabre cochampions Yale and Columbia, which each grabbed 29 wins...
...future when we went out for freshman ball. Tyrell wanted to run with the ball, but since--like many freshmen--he didn't get out of school until 4:30 p.m., the freshman coach made him a second string quarterback. Tyrell would dress in the rag-tag equipment money-pinched city schools give to their football players, and with strips of tape dangling from his torn jersey and practice pants, scramble all over the field looking for non-existent receivers after the first string had run through its routine...
Munching a tasty morsel of union lettuce (thousand island dressing), he pondered the strange twists of fate which had stayed his rag-tag troops from victory and thrust them into ignominious defeat at the hands of The Crime on two previous occasions...