Word: rags
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Next day cigar-smoking (and snuff-sniffing) Winston Churchill burned a rag under Laborite noses. Said he, in a London speech: "Our country is being driven to ruin and our Empire is scattered and squandered. Everyone is conscious of the approaching crisis in our financial and economic affairs. The Socialist Government is living on an American dole, and squandering it with profligate rapidity...
Original grade sheets are 100 percent rag paper, Kennedy said, and these are bound and filed for a permanent record. In addition, day pages, I.B.M. and permanent record cards are "kept forever" in University Hall basement storerooms...
...terrorists struck. H. A. I. Collins, a director of a Palestine bank, was entertaining a young Jewish woman at tea when a knock summoned him to the door. Outside stood a beautiful Jewess with four armed Yemenite Jews. They threw Collins to the floor, slapped a chloroform-soaked rag against his face. The beautiful Jewess screamed, "Take him to the cemetery." The four men crammed him into a gunny sack, fled...
...done it? How was it that the name of this small-town lawyer and congressional cloakroom compromiser was known with respect from the rag markets of Istanbul to the chrysanthemum parterres of Osaka...
...hundreds of years, Paris' chiffoniers (rag pickers) had shuffled about quietly in the half-light before dawn, pawing through potato peels and rotten meat in their quest for a handful of old rags or an empty tin can. (Their .reward: for a kilo of rags, 4 francs; for a kilo of iron, half a franc...