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Word: raggedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the Soviet sweet talk and the Latino sour pointed up the fact that Communist influence in Latin America has waned during the past decade. The only pro-Communist government in postwar Latin America, the Arbenz regime in Guatemala, collapsed in 1954. Communist parties are now illegal in 15 out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Thin Red Line | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Things looked dark indeed for Harvard at the start of the final period when two Providence scores, again resulting from poor backchecking and ragged defense, came before the nine-minute mark. The Crimson struck back, though harassed by the strongly partisan crowd which lined the boards behind Flynn's cage...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Varsity Sextet Defeats Friars, 5-4, With Four Scores in Third Period | 1/11/1956 | See Source »

The Mozart and Beethoven are so well known as to make inevitable a comparison, with professional standards. The musicians in the Mozart were Edward Filmanowicz and Ronald Hathaway, violins; Frederick Shoup, viola; and Charles Forbes, 'cello. The performance understandably lacked the polish ideally desired; the minuet movement was rather ragged...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Chamber Music Concert | 12/17/1955 | See Source »

El Chama was every bit as anxious as his owner. At the start, he broke and forced a recall. Next time the field got off ragged but right. Prendase moved steadily to the front. By the time the leaders pounded into the stretch it was a three-horse race; Prendase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Classic Confidence | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

The German armies were in full retreat from their disastrous Russian campaign. On half an hour's notice, the prisoners were ordered to march west, through 40°-below-zero cold, across the same winter terrain where Napoleon's ragged foot soldiers once made their own decimating retreat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Apocalyptic March | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

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