Word: ragtag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...residence on the Pacific resort island of Contadora. In Panama City, several hundred leftists marched through the streets, spray-painting FUERA EL SHAH (Shah get out) on trees and walls and hurling stones at the U.S. embassy. A squad of 30 helmeted officers mounted on motorcycles charged a ragtag band of 100 marchers, led by part-time Radio Commentator Miguel Bernal. The police and National Guard beat the demonstrators to the ground with 18-in.-long red-and-black rubber truncheons and hauled them off to jail...
That launched the shutdown of Oriole hitters by Pittsburgh pitchers. Proud possessors of the most successful starting rotation in all of baseball, the Orioles suddenly found themselves outmanned on the mound by a ragtag collection of starting relievers, relieving starters and the ubiquitous Tekulve, who iced the last two Pi rate wins by facing 15 batters and giving up just one single. In the final three games, Baltimore scored only two runs, while Pittsburgh mowed down Baltimore's best...
DIED. General Jacob L. Devers, 92, World War II combat commander who helped develop the U.S. Army's armored units; in Washington, D.C. A deft administrator and one of the best polo players in the military, "Jakie" was charged in 1941 with welding the ragtag tank, infantry and artillery units of the fledgling armored forces into an effective tool for modern, mechanized warfare. In 1943 Devers became European theater commander for U.S. forces under General Dwight D. Eisenhower; he later helped direct the Allies' North African and Italian campaigns and plan the Normandy invasion. In 1945 Devers succeeded...
...summer of 1907, Edward Wyllis Scripps, the eccentric Ohio newspaper entrepreneur, strung together a ragtag assortment of reporters, telegraph operators and rewrite men to form the United Press. Though the fledgling wire service had just $500 in working capital, Scripps gave it a difficult mission: take on the mighty Associated Press, a cooperative owned by its client newspapers and established more than half a century earlier. By late summer U P. had miraculously captured 369 U.S. papers as clients, and it looked as if Scripps' folly might soon overtake A.P. as the nation's premier wire service...
...Shanti Spaeth and her husband Karl regard street music as theater. They unashamedly cater to the tourists around Jackson Square, in New Orleans' French Quarter, by wearing ragtag getups and going barefoot. Karl, besides playing guitar, mandolin and trombone, laces their performances with his own political jokes and humorous songs (Ain 't No Sin to Take off Your Skin and Dance Around in Your Bones). But all is seriousness when Shanti belts out blues or scats like Ella Fitzgerald on Satin Doll. The couple were married nine days after meeting at a crafts fair in Oregon a year...