Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are two familiar patterns which the touted new National Students Organization hopes distinctly not to resemble: the shrieking "save the world" crusader with rag-paper pamphlets and the cautiously respectable student council federation with annual parliamentary junkets. Regional delegates, meeting here over the weekend in a warmup before this September's week-long Constitutional Convention at the University of Wisconsin, displayed unanimous determination to steer clear of both political axe-grinding and do-nothing organization for its own sake. What they are out to build is an utterly representative national body in which every American student will feel himself...
Next day cigar-smoking (and snuff-sniffing) Winston Churchill burned a rag under Laborite noses. Said he, in a London speech: "Our country is being driven to ruin and our Empire is scattered and squandered. Everyone is conscious of the approaching crisis in our financial and economic affairs. The Socialist Government is living on an American dole, and squandering it with profligate rapidity...
Original grade sheets are 100 percent rag paper, Kennedy said, and these are bound and filed for a permanent record. In addition, day pages, I.B.M. and permanent record cards are "kept forever" in University Hall basement storerooms...
...terrorists struck. H. A. I. Collins, a director of a Palestine bank, was entertaining a young Jewish woman at tea when a knock summoned him to the door. Outside stood a beautiful Jewess with four armed Yemenite Jews. They threw Collins to the floor, slapped a chloroform-soaked rag against his face. The beautiful Jewess screamed, "Take him to the cemetery." The four men crammed him into a gunny sack, fled...
...done it? How was it that the name of this small-town lawyer and congressional cloakroom compromiser was known with respect from the rag markets of Istanbul to the chrysanthemum parterres of Osaka...