Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Listening to another dispatcher in his earpiece, Sergeant Barry Williams, who was leading a second SWAT team inside, tried to track Sanders down--but he says no one could tell him where the science rooms were. Still, he and his team searched on, looking for a rag that kids said they had tied on the doorknob as a signal...
...Lulu, a self-proclaimed "personality" from the free-bimonthly rag Stuff at Night, emceed the evening. Sporting a form-fitting black dress with glittering green styrofoam martini olives in her hair, she announced in her introduction, "My name is Lulu, not olive head...
...what's not to love? Of course, titles like "the most exciting musical force in Britain" fly liberally these days, being dispensed, coincidentally enough, at a frequency to match music rag publication. We cloaked ourselves in doubt--how could any DJ duo be that formidable? It was no good. They defeated Floyd to pack in hundreds of big-trousered, poker-hatted, UV-resplendent love-children of dance; our skepticism fell away at the drop of a beat...
...third of the world's people will be slain--a third of those who remain, that is, following the recent Christian Rapture, which has literally snatched believers from cars and offices and carried them off bodily to heaven. Among those left behind to battle evil as part of the rag-tag "Tribulation Force" are Rayford Steele, a former commercial-airline pilot, and Cameron ("Buck") Williams, publisher of the cyberjournal The Truth. Their enemy: one Nicolae Carpathia, former U.N. Secretary-General, current Global Community Potentate and--some believe--the Antichrist...
...Class of 1994 has let the doyenne of controversial publications, the infamous rag, lapse into oblivion. Topping the particularly inflamatory "educated pussy" was a challenge that no present students could meet. The only news Penninsula makes these days concerns how little news it makes. The old guard--Roger Landry, Sumner Anderson, and company--were walking controversies. The spoke and the campus would go into a frenzy or at least plan an eat-in. Brigette/id Kerrigan could stir up acrimonious polemics about how her name should be spelled and provoke a near-insurrection with the well-timed wave of a flag...