Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columbia fumbles and ragged play converted a simple Harvard victory into a near rout at Baker's Field Saturday. The clearly superior Crimson squad gratefully took advantage of a series of Lion mistakes, contributed scoring punch when it was needed, and rolled to a 26-0 triumph over the New...
Most of the million refugees from Palestine live out empty lives in ragged camps. But not the Salti and Stephan families. Though Greek Orthodox, they fled with their Moslem compatriots into Jordan during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, abandoning profitable businesses. There, Saba Salti slowly re-established his construction...
From the family closet of Republican Attorney General William Pierce Rogers came a political skeleton: daughter Dale, 21, a senior at Cornell University, is a registered Democrat. Said her mother, in a ragged defense: "When politics comes up at home, she is pretty much out of it."
T. V. Williams Jr. rode high and hard until this month, and then he swung the ragged blade of bigotry against the wrong people: Georgia politicians. Backing a rabid racist, Baptist Preacher W. T. Bodenhamer, to succeed Griffin in his scandal-scarred governor's chair, T. V. Williams Jr...
For this picaresque libretto, Composer Kurka composed an astringent score for brasses, wind instruments and percussion only, omitting the strings. Strongly rhythmic, shot through with jazz influences, it occasionally offered a wry commentary on the action, provided at least two moments of moving lyricism: Schweik's apostrophe on war...