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Word: ragging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adornment and pounded into aphrodisiacal potions. In such a context, the grandeur of these court clothes seems almost casual. It is impossible to resist the impact of a coat--cut for a maharajah who stood 6 ft. 9 in.--made of silk and interlined, for warmth, with rustling handmade rag paper. All that captures the eye. But what holds the imagination are the shapes, the folds and the colors, the cascades of fabric in a skirt that uses 300 yards of cotton to move over the wearer like a light wind or that spills around her, when she sits, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Harmony of Fugitive Color | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...There are a bunch of sour pusses in the Castle," said Lampoon president Jessica Marshall, '86. "They may have run off and started their own rag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon Finds Joke in Itself | 10/24/1985 | See Source »

...Boston Globe. The Globe's sports section is consistently voted the best in the country. Its thorough, well-written coverage will make you forget your hometown rag--unless you want to know what's happening outside of New England. In that case, there's always USA Today...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: The Hub and its Heroes | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

...Boston Globe. The Globe's sports section is consistently voted the best in the country. Its thorough, well-written coverage will make you forget your hometown rag--unless you want to know what's happening outside of New England. In that case, there's always USA Today...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: The Hub and its Heroes | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...breakup abounded, investigators from India, the U.S., Canada and Ireland had nothing conclusive to report by week's end about the third-worst airline disaster in history.* Bits and pieces of the wreckage plucked from the sea were sometimes heartbreaking: a red slipper, a limp rag doll, a waterlogged Teddy bear. Irish and British naval vessels and helicopters fanned out over a 5-sq.-mi. area. They retrieved 131 bodies, and by week's end the bulk of the wreckage had been located...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters a Case of Global Jitters | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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