Word: ragtag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to turn his no tions into a workable social philosophy. He is hassled not only by Darden and his dark forces but by his own comrades, especially a band of war-loving gorillas who are apparently supposed to symbolize the Pentagon. There is some mild fun in a ragtag convoy of bad guys who ride to battle in a couple of old cars and a battered school bus - all that remains of the visual stunts that distinguished earlier Ape efforts...
...little band that represents the Liberal Party in Britain's House of Commons has the ragtag and comically mismatched look of Sergeant Bilko's platoon. It includes a 300-lb. spring maker, a Welsh barrister, a teacher from the Scottish highlands and an insurance manager from one of London's blue-blood suburbs. Their leader is an engaging aristocrat, Jeremy Thorpe, 44, an amateur violinist and accomplished mimic whose ancestors were serving in Parliament in the 14th century. Now the band has been joined by David Austick, a bald lay preacher and bookseller, and Clement Freud...
What bothers many Costa Ricans most is that Vesco seems to have invested in their popular President as well as their economy. Diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) José Figueres, 66, known affectionately as "Don Pepe," is something of a national hero. In 1948, he successfully led a ragtag 700-man force against Communist revolutionaries and military reactionaries who were trying to destroy Costa Rica's democratic system. Don Pepe, who was elected to his second nonconsecutive presidential term in 1970, concedes that some of his business investments have gone sour in recent years. He readily acknowledges that...
...assorted group of renegades, soldiers, businessmen and misfits were marooned in the middle of a desert, their sole hope of survival being to somehow piece together their crashed plane. Steelyard Blues more or less rips off the same plot, but dispenses with suspense in favor of fey comedy and ragtag radicalism...
...Crimson icemen, making a big sprint towards next week's ECAC quarterfinals, left the Bulldogs in the dust Saturday night, as they thoroughly outplayed a ragtag Yale six to a 9-1 victory...