Word: rags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Little Buttercup, a rag woman, is in love with the captain, who loves her though he is too proud to acknowledge his affection...
Through a comic series of events, the players come to the conclusion that "love levels all ranks." The rag woman reveals that she was nurse to the captain and Ralph at birth and that she switched them in their cradles. The show ends happily with all the lovers united and the arrogant Sir Joseph stuck with his cousin, Hebe...
...blast of wind estimated at 100 m.p.h. struck the yellow-brick-and-glass building. A massive section of the south wall crashed into the children in a hail of shattered glass, concrete and falling bricks. Some pupils who had been standing to watch the storm were tossed about like rag dolls. "I heard a whistling sound," said Mike Miller, 7. "Tables were flying. Bricks were flying. There was breaking glass. People were crying...
...Justice Department last week dropped its investigation of Jordache Enterprises, the giant jeansmaker, thus wrapping up one of the rag trade's most sordid sagas. It began in 1986 when 50 IRS agents stormed Jordache's New York City headquarters, confiscating 1 million documents and virtually paralyzing the company's operations. Jordache officials suspected that their archenemies at Guess, Inc. were somehow involved. Sure enough, the raid and subsequent grand jury criminal case against Jordache was the result of information supplied by Guess to Ronald Saranow, a top IRS official...
Last summer, I worked full-time as a campaign coordinator for a rag-tag bunch of Democrats, led by Zwirn, who are challenging the Republican leadership in my town, the town of North Hempstead. Having been involved in local Democratic politics for many years, I had become accustomed to the casual nature with which we all treated the futility of our efforts. But this summer, that futility hit home...