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Word: ragged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget imbalanced in favor of Western Canada--Clark's electoral backbone--turned sour on the Tories. Even Ontario's Conservative premier, William Davis, criticized the austerity budget as unfair. The traditionally divided Tories thus repeated history by flailing at their own flag, leaving Clark with a tattered Tory rag...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Second Coming | 2/23/1980 | See Source »

Despite a rag-doll arm, caused by German bullets in World War I, the elder Mowat is eager to get back into his army unit, the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment. Baby-faced Farley is eventually commissioned in the "Hasty Pees" after the air force rejects him for being four pounds underweight. There are the usual training shenanigans, reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh's Men at Arms, and the inevitable cockiness that precedes the regiment's first bloodying. That occurs during the amphibious landing in Sicily, part of the Allies' first massive invasion of Europe in 1943. Taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arms and the Young Man | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...rough on the Shah ("Let's get back to you, Majesty. So intransigent, so harsh, maybe even ruthless, behind that sad face"). Fallaci wore a floor-length black chador to interview the Ayatullah, then, getting angry, dramatically announced, "I'm going to take off this stupid medieval rag right now." She told Libya's dictator, Colonel Gaddafi, that she was going to conduct a "kind of trial" of him to find out "why you are so little liked in the world." She says of herself: "I make scenes, I yell and scream." As the Anna Magnani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Trial by Interview | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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