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Word: rag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korean soldiers I saw at this front were happy men, cheerful to talk to. Looking like rag dolls in their baggy, mustard-colored uniforms topped by big U.S. helmets, they quietly manned craggy command posts or patiently waited behind the slopes of mountains to go into action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Headed the Right Way | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...before the final, the reconditioned Patty went through a four-hour doubles match, longest in Wimbledon history (one set went to 31-29). Patty looked like a limp rag afterward, and for the singles the smart money was on wiry, 22-year-old Sedgman, whose austere training habits include calisthenics and jogging around Wimbledon Common. Patty declined an invitation to a party at a West End nightclub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another Budge | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Crime & punishment in a rag-tag underworld teaches proud Father Cawder that "it's no part of a priest's business to pass on people like a judge"; an unsentimental first novel on a Graham Greeneish theme (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...Encounter, by Crawford Power. Crime & punishment in a rag-tag underworld teaches proud Father Cawder that "it's no part of a priest's business to pass on people like a judge"; an unsentimental first novel on a Graham Greene-ish theme (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Jul. 10, 1950 | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...Encounter, by Crawford Power. Crime & punishment in a rag-tag underworld teaches proud Father Cawder that "it's no part of a priest's business to pass on people like a judge"; an unsentimental first novel on a Graham Greene-ish theme (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Jun. 26, 1950 | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

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