Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the West Is Doing. The U.S. and Britain are making some feeble efforts to counteract Russian propaganda. Mobile film units show newsreels and Walt Disney films on how to stay healthy by not drinking dirty water. Britain has a couple of Kurdish-speaking consuls who are running themselves ragged...
Overnight, Herbert Hoover was turned into a scapegoat for the economic sins of a whole generation. Charles Michelson, the Democrats' razor-tongued publicity genius, pilloried him before millions as a hapless homunculus responsible for all the nation's ills. Disgruntled citizens called the dear departed boom the Hoover...
_ Other garden gadgets are also getting a big play. Food Machinery & Chemical Corp., for example, is doing a big business with small tractors ($129 and up) to which some 30 different attachments can be hitched-including a saw, a snowplow and blower, and an air compressor which can be used...
On the beds of Amazon River tributaries in remotest Amapá territory, the glitter of gold has set off periodic rushes since 1893. Early in June a ragged, unshaven prospector stomped into a river village with word of the latest strike. To pay for medicine, food and tools, he had...
The reproductions in Punch had not done Keene justice. Printed from wood blocks, they were dull and crude compared to the pen & ink originals: flustered old gentlemen and ragged urchins done with fine, soft tones and a master's spare line. Moreover, the public never saw the drawings that...