Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems with these people. What you fail to say is that the band was designed to be used by the increasing number of businesses that want to be able to communicate with their people in the field. If people want to get on the air just to "chew the rag," they could become radio amateurs (hams). That would give them not just one band but many more...
Most of the Fly Club members seem to feel the whole episode Sunday was prompted by what one member called "red rag journalism"--a series of articles in the Crimson discussing the ownership and use of the land. Later that afternoon, Thomas Whiteside '32, a Fly Club trustee, said the reporter who wrote those articles "must be a Communist--he thinks people should invade private property." Thomas E. Walsh Jr., the club's steward, interrupted a conversation I was having with a club member to thrown me off the Fly Club land, threatening to call the police if I didn...
...jurisdictional dispute that really hasn't been settled and it's a pity calmer heads didn't prevail," one club member who refused to give his name said, adding, "The whole thing was promulgated by red rag journalism...
...woman proctor who always answers the door half-dressed. Bab-O cleanser. And the people who always offer him a toke on one of their perpetual joints. And the messy sink of the person with the weak stomach. And the people with bad aim. Oh, the walls. Polishing rag. And the mirrors of those who stood too close doing battle with their blemishes. Plastic spray bottle. And those who left town without flushing. Damn them. "Johnny brush" with plastic bristles. That's just about everything. And thus weighted, the student porter climbs out into the sunlight of the Yard...
...wonderful footage of women talking about themselves. Prostitutes explain that they first turned tricks because they were starving. A clinical psychologist and lesbian talks about the discrimination she has suffered in her profession. An aging housewife sits on a park bench under a gray sky, and shows us the rag dolls she has made and sold for 25 years. Prostitutes in the San Francisco Women's Jail sit around a plastic table, smoke cigarettes, and say bitterly that they will have to turn another trick as soon as they get out, just to feed their children...