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Word: raggedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Lust-Putty." Hero Bill Gaunt, a Wylie-minded philosopher, suffers much as his fellow men do when, without warning or explanation, all wives and daughters vanish from the face of the earth. A host of domestic chores such as he has never suspected fall into his philosophical lap; his shiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shall We Join the Ladies? | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

With a glittering chance to knock off the nation's No. 1 and 2 teams on consecutive nights, St. Louis threw away its slowdown stuff, switched to a racehorse game, and ran Bradley ragged for the first three quarters. But Bradley stayed close to the pace, caught tired St...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New No. I | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

After that, Bunnies Dan Simonds and Lew Brown ragged the puck, preventing any all-out Dunster attack.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett's Sextet Tops Dunster, 3-2 | 12/19/1950 | See Source »

Despite uncountable acts of individual and group heroism, the morale of the surviving U.S. troops had been severely shaken by the knowledge that all their shiny weapons and equipment, their sensational blitz tactics, their mountain of supplies, their tanks, trucks, artillery and air power could not hold back a horde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exit? | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Rudi Bing himself had some matters that would bear sleeping on. He had done a bang-up job on his two new productions of Don Carlo and The Flying Dutchman (TIME, Nov. 20). But after a sleepwalking Don Giovanni (and a ragged Traviata two weeks ago), it was clear that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Substitution | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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