Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He showed up, ragged, half-blind and half-deaf, at the Dixiecrat States' Rights convention in 1948. Stubbornly he refused to let any of his four sons take him in.'To anyone who was interested he would give his still booming opinion on how the Government was presently...
Conversely, the selection which probably presented the least number of technical problems--Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso--was least good. Perhaps this was due to the difficulty of integrating amateur strings when they are unsupported by the rest of the orchestra. But though ragged, there were no major shortcomings, and this...
Last week, as the Red armies of China swept unopposed across the Pearl River Delta, chasing ragged anti-Communist forces toward the Macao line, Oliveira realized he must behave with greater circumspection than any governor before him. The gunfire of China's war was audible in the Portuguese colony...
Not since the great potato blight of 1846 packed U.S.-bound Irishmen by the thousands into stinking steerages had the people of Cork seen such seaborne misery. "What's to become of them?" asked one spectator emptily, as he gazed at the puny, battered British landing craft clinging to...
Adams capitalized on Lowell's case of fumbleitis in notching its victory. After a ragged first period the Goldcoasters' Don Nosek blocked a Lowell punt and on the next play Roger Davis scored through the middle. A Belboy fumble set up another Davis score after the line had stopped the...