Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read, I listen, I squirrel information. It's fun." One government official describes his technique as one of sheer persistence: "He wheedles, cajoles, pleads, threatens, asks a leading question, uses little tidbits as if he knew the whole story. When he finishes you feel like a wet rag...
...know exactly what a Conservative government would be like," said Wilson, "whether they succeed in various invitations to Mr. Rag, Mr. Tag and the Marquess of Bobtail...
Spider John Koerner, so named because he's long and thin, is at Passim's this week, from July 17 to 21. Spider John is a local boy and a longtime veteran of the blues-jugband-rag scene around here. He hasn't been in town for a while, and deserves a warm welcome back...
Setting to work on Flying was her instinctive response to the strain-a desperate, rambling attempt at self-definition. The result is a confused rag bag of reportage, memories and confession. She describes her Irish Catholic childhood in St. Paul-her father's desertion of his wife and three daughters, the "ripe eroticism" of her convent-school days. She analyzes her intellectual and artistic development, her marriage and, above all, again and again in paralyzing detail, the sexual relationships with women that began when she was at college and still dominate her life...
Over 300 athletes competed in the Championships, which a rag-tag group of Crimson cindermen won last year. This time the Greater Boston Club was victorious with 56 points to Harvard's 17, while the Aquid Neck Island trackmen finished with 14 points. Over 20 clubs or associations were represented at the meet...