Word: ragtag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie theaters last week, and in the first two days managed to push up the beach and top the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark. He is followed by the crew of the starship Enterprise (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock) and by a hardy, ragtag company of mercenaries: punk rockers (Streets of Fire), Jewish gangsters (Once Upon a Time in America), breakdancing dervishes (Beat Street), comic exorcists (Ghostbusters), bumbling spies (Top Secret!) and sci-fi sorcerers (The Last Star fighter). The down-home marching band is led by Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone (Rhinestone...
...first light of a chilly dawn, 350 British police and bailiffs converged on the main gate of the Royal Air Force base at Greenham Common. For nearly three years, a ragtag band of women demonstrators had captured headlines round the world by camping just outside the gate to protest the deployment inside of 96 nuclear-tipped, U.S.-made cruise missiles. Now, however, the women were being forced to break camp: 50-odd sleepy inhabitants were given five minutes to vacate their garbage-strewn campsite. As they reluctantly departed-some jeering, some in tears-police demolished the main camp as well...
...helped chart BL's new direction is its former chairman, Sir Michael Edwardes, 53, a 5-ft. 2-in. South African whom the London Times called "Diminutive Dr. Death." In 1977 Edwardes inherited a ragtag company that was racked with heavy losses, chronic labor problems, aging automobile designs, inefficient factories and low productivity...
...horn sounded, and Michaels and the nation exploded: "Yes!" With this victory and the next, a 4-2 win over Finland, the ragtag squad of 20 young amateur athletes had done more than bring U.S. hockey its first Olympic gold medal since 1960. For a few happy days, they had set America skating...
...their rear-view mirrors. But by the San Gorgonio Pass, most of the working stiffs are home, and the chartered buses and four-door sedans start bunching up. By the time they reach the 32,000-acre Morongo Indian reservation, the hundreds of small-time gamblers form a ragtag convoy. Their destination is Indian Village Bingo, a new gambling hall with 1,400 seats that has teemed with players every night since it opened in April...