Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Far bigger than Tunisia, potentially much richer than Algeria. Morocco (pop. 9,000,000) is the most variegated of the three countries that once constituted French North Africa. In Morocco's north there are sweeping coastal plains and fertile valleys; in the south, the snow-capped Atlas Mountains soar...
Against the Combined Services, the ruggers took advantage of an untimely Royal Navy cruise to run the Army substitutes ragged, in what Bermuda's Mid-Ocean News called "a display of rugby seldom seen in this Island."
For two nights and a day, the 17,000-ton missile cruiser Canberra cut through an uneasy sea in rain and fog that blotted out the destroyers Barton and Wood port and starboard. Finally, on the second day, after knifing through the Gulf Stream, Canberra moved into the Bahama Islands...
In the interval between his premierships, nothing much had changed for the better in the nine-year-old nation which the serene and inscrutable U Nu has headed in fact, if not in name, all along. Screaming black crows still challenge packs of vicious dogs for riparian rights to the...
At first singles, Ben Heckscher ran Bob Dillon ragged for the first two games, which he split with the Amherst player, and then swept the last two, each at 15-6, with Dillon no longer able to make the "gets" which had kept him in the match up to that...