Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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*Seven miles from Valley Forge, where Washington in 1778 knelt in prayer for his ragged army.
When Correspondent Hobbing asked a group of them what they wanted, the answers came fast. "Water, tools, seed, schools, doctors." And they know, as their fathers did not, how their ragged plight looks to the rest of the world. When Hobbing asked a group of peasants if they had ever...
Unfortunately, the film's continuity is almost as ragged as its moppets, and just as inclined to make too much of a good thing. But Director Robert Varnay knows how to cut loose a camera for comic effect, and the kids (Jacques Gencel,* Sophie Leclair, De Meulan, et al...
A ragged, angry-eyed youth rushed into a Rome art gallery one day six years ago, and thrust a portfolio full of drawings at the startled proprietor. "You must buy these," he said. "I don't have enough to eat!" The dealer accepted the portfolio, pressed a few dollars...
At dawn on April 26, 1945, a ruddy, round-faced young G.I., standing guard in front of the Allied lines at Bad Kleinen, Germany, watched two ragged figures approaching him. His orders were to turn back the civilians and defeated Nazi troops who were trying to escape the Russians, but...