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Word: ragged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support him, but has to pay her so much attention in return that he is driven from keyboard to bar. In the end, of course. Actress Taylor sees the error of her ways and builds up the husband she has torn down, just in time for a gigantic Rachmaninoff rag at the finale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

Pearl Harper is barely five; too young to know more than that her rag doll is stuffed with green paper. John is nine; he knows what the paper is, and has sworn to his dad, just before the capture, not to give away the secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer in Cresap's Landing | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Next day Jimmy's workmates ostracized him. One young fellow threw an oily rag at Jimmy's face and knocked off his glasses. Jimmy did not answer back. He went off by himself and broke into tears. Four days before Christmas, his wife found him lying with his head in the gas oven. The coroner's verdict: "Suicide while the balance of his mind was disturbed. It would appear that this man has been overwhelmed by the treatment he received, or thought he was receiving, from his workmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Ostracized Workman | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...Ewell (Windin' Ball LP). Piano solos patterned after New Orleans' late King Oliver and played in the high honky-tonk tradition; such tunes as Weather Bird Rag and New Orleans Stomp sound almost like the real thing. The third Ewell LP by a young Chicago label...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...newspaper had fixed its disapproving glance on a Halloween rag at the University of Toronto in which undergraduates staged a mock lynching and burned U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy in effigy. Shrouded in bedsheet hoods, hundreds of students swarmed across the campus chanting, "Burn McCarthy!" and "Down with Joe!" After the dummy guest of honor had been hanged from a scaffold and put to the torch, speakers denounced McCarthy's "terror tactics." An outgrowth of days of bull sessions on "McCarthyism." the demonstration evoked mixed reactions even on the campus. When the student newspaper Varsity took a favorable stand. News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Student Rag | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

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