Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frenchman is Journalist Pierre Daninos and the Englishman is Major Thompson, the hero of The Notebooks of Major Thompson (TIME, Sept. 26, 1955), a collection of Daninos' sometimes hilarious feature stories that has sold more than half a million copies in Europe and the U.S. To turn this rag, tag and bobtail of epigram, anecdote, whimsy and general small beer into a movie was, according to Sturges, "like trying to make a film of the telephone directory." But, except for a few wrong numbers, Director Sturges has done the trick with a controlled crack. pettiness that will take many...
...Marx's more than 500 Tribune articles appeared without byline among the paper's celebrated editorials. Says Hale: "Much of what the Tribune's subscribers took to be the work of Greeley was the work of Marx." Marx's opinion of "das Lauseblatt [that lousy rag]" was consistently low, and at first his command of English was poor. So many of the articles he passed off as his own (for $5 each) were ghostwritten for him by his financial angel and literary factotum, Friedrich Engels who was in Manchester managing a textile mill owned...
...shrapnel, clipped off a set of football goal posts, cut down some of the boys as they dived to earth. One youth's left leg was almost severed above the knee. He was saved from bleeding to death when a quick-thinking teacher made a tourniquet from a rag and a chunk of the fallen metal. Another youngster's abdomen was ripped open by a piece of flying metal. When the debris settled and the screams were stilled, three boys were dead or dying, 78 others hurt. Dead also: the airliner's four-man crew and Scorpion...
...lasted only as long as the men avoided new stressful situations. Groover is not yet prepared to say that success in restoring fat levels to normal means that potential heart attacks have been prevented. Such high levels may be a major factor contributing to the attack, "like the oily-rag-in-the-attic fire," he says, "but they aren't necessarily the cause of heart attacks." Still, Groover is sure that somewhere in the area of diet and stress, the answer will be found...
...refugee camp. Men, women and children slept in utter exhaustion on straw pallets. A middle-aged woman awoke with a start, already weeping. She stared around in hysterical terror. Near her, a young man gazed emptily at the ceiling, suddenly leaped from his mat, clutched a filthy rag to his mouth and ran for the door, vomiting as he went. A little girl danced happily around the room, holding a tattered rag doll to her breast, then sat down on the dirty floor and cried soundlessly, helplessly in the shocking, numbing discovery that the long trip of escape was ended...