Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sounded a bit like the nightmare of a student who had read too much Dostoevski or Koestler, but it actually happened last week at St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. The confrontation was the twice-a-year "don rag," which is the closest St. John's comes to a report card. It is also the logical extension of the school's Socratic teaching method, which stresses 100 "great books" and depends almost exclusively on small tutorial discussion groups and oral exams...
When you try on a boot, bring the heavy rag socks you will wear and a medium-heavy cotton sock. An expert will always sell you a tight fitting boot, since after a while the leather will stretch and mould to your foot. Push your foot forward as far as possible so that your toe touches the end and then feel how much room there is in back at the heel. If it is more than one finger, the boot...
When you try on a boot, bring the heavy rag socks you will wear and a medium-heavy cotton stock. An expert will always sell you a tight fitting boot, since after a while the leather will stretch and mould to your foot. Push your foot forward as far as possible so that your toe touches the end and then feel how much room there is in back at the heel. If it is more than one finger, the boot...
...retaliation, Duvalier's secret police slaughtered whole families and even distant relatives of the rebels. Drouin's family was marched naked through the streets of their home town and "removed" at a nearby army barracks. Meantime, Duvalier's rag-tag army was killing off the miniature force one by one. The government bragged that only Drouin and Numa remained...
...RAG DOLL (Philips). The Four Seasons resemble the Beach Boys in playing arrangements scored primarily for guitars and cash registers. Philosophically, however, they tend to be more conservative. It was they who warned Dawn to go away, and now along comes this sad rag doll. "I'd change her sad rags into glad rags if I could," sings the hero, "but my folks...