Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Knives & Ice Cream. Without waiting for the government to solicit his services, a fierce, black-bearded giant named Shaban Jafari cruised the polling places through the week with his ragged associates-the Society of Gallant Men-to flex his muscles on behalf of Zahedi candidates. Tough, rough Shaban, who is...
The monument shows Washington on horseback with sword in hand, facing the ranks of the Continental Army. Here under the Elm, he legend asserts, he declared himself Commander-in-Chief. This is borne out by a diary describing that historical day. "Discovered" just in time for Cambridge's centennial, the...
The Crimson opened the game in good form and jumped to a 6 to 2 lead over its unskilled opposition. However, in the following periods the playing became ragged and the game developed into a high-scoring free-for-all.
Vital Ingredient. West Germany throbs with its fabulous recovery while the East Germans under Soviet rule are on the brink of starvation. In Düsseldorf, Munich and other cities, where only a few years ago the ragged populace scrabbled through the rubble in desperate search for a single potato...
American travelers are often shocked at the ragged beggars who gather around the cathedrals of Europe, the mosques and holy places of the Orient. The sight of a paretic Venetian pandering his nine-year-old daughter, or of a Calcutta mendicant clutching the withered body of a dead baby with...