Word: ragtag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high-ceilinged courtroom where the ceremonies took place was packed with blacks who came to see the ragtag parade and oath taking that symbolized their assumption of power. On the way, the Druid High School Band kept cadence in the cold morning for the dignitaries riding in a mule-drawn wagon and the float covered with green and white napkins topped by a tinfoil telescope that proclaimed "Greene County-Focus of the Nation...
Suggs is now a middle-echelon manager for Jerry Campbell and Tom Scott, two 24-year-olds from Dallas who employ a ragtag army of some 170 flower children to sell carnations on the streets of several cities. The pair first tried the idea six months ago at home as a way of helping some of their jobless friends. The idea paid off so handsomely that Campbell and Scott now have flowers flown in from growers in Colorado, California and Illinois, and have hired young people to sell them in Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, Little Rock, Ark., and Wichita...
...scenario read like an Ian Fleming doodle, a picaresque fantasy. The cast: a ragtag band of radical pacifists, many of them Roman Catholics, some priests and nuns, a physics professor and a Moslem from Pakistan. The leading actors: two hotly controversial priests ?Philip Berrigan, 47, a Josephite, and his Jesuit brother Daniel, 49, both now in the Danbury, Conn., federal prison serving sentences for burning draft records with napalm in May 1968. The plot: a seemingly irrational conspiracy to blow up the heating systems at some five Government sites on Washington's Birthday, 1971, then next day kidnap Henry...
...further indicator that the regime may outlast pessimists' predictions is the army, which has grown from 35,000 to 140,000 men. It is still a ragtag force, ill equipped with a bewildering array of Communist and American weapons. But, as it demonstrated in its recent relief of Kompong Thom and its stand at Taing Kauk, the army is capable of slugging it out with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong...
...lawyers to arrange the purchase of the necessary paper for less than half its face value, and a little-known statute providing that municipal bonds must be accepted at their face value in payment of bail. The issues-all of them bearer bonds and thus freely negotiable -were a ragtag assortment of New York State Housing Authority and Dormitory Authority bonds. The man who engineered the transaction, New York Attorney Victor Rabinowitz, said he intends to use the method to free some of the remaining ten Panthers. As for Joan, she embraced her mother upon leaving the Women...