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Word: ragged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rice Paddy Rag. In Peking, Radio Peking, propaganda voice of Communist China, played a song called Mother, I Want to Go to the Countryside to Train Myself with Physical Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 5, 1958 | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...self-styled maverick who dropped out of the University of Chicago Law School "because I didn't like it," Bruce Sagan is the youngest of three sons of a wealthy Manhattan garment manufacturer-and thus, in the eyes of his critics, has gone from riches to a rag. Even with help from his family, Sagan's success has been powered by a broad streak of pugnacity and a keen nose for news. Says his old City News boss, Managing Editor Isaac Gershman: "He moves three times faster than anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Maverick's Rise | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...shimmy with the Moscow line, the Communist Party has huffed, puffed and passed the hat repeatedly to save Manhattan's Daily Worker from folding. Last week the party tried for the first time to fold the Worker deliberately-and found to its chagrin that the hardy little rag kept right on coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Zombie Worker | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Silence hung like a damp rag over the bar; George impaled one lima bean on a toothpick and examined...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Vegetable Generation | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

...adjusted to the you that got adjusted to me." From here on, she bounces all over the Freudian landscape, sometimes backed by a hot sax (Repressed Hostility Blues), sometimes by a relaxed trumpet (Real Sick Sounds). In a childhood memoir called The Guilty . Rag, she combines a brassy red-hot mamma complex with a mocking, rocking bit of father asphyxiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stay as Sick as You Are | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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