Word: ragtag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers for themselves. The gathering sometimes seemed conventional: patriotic eulogies, American Legion caps, martial music and maudlin, affectionate reunions of old platoon chums. But the convocation had an edge, a sense of catharsis, mainly because it was large and public. In the end, with a splendidly ragtag march down Constitution Avenue and the dedication of the Veterans Memorial, the spectacle seemed like the national homecoming the country had never offered...
...only serious smudge on the luster of this World Cup, hundreds of police armed with attack dogs, tear-gas launchers and riot gear patrol the streets of Bilbao in armored personnel carriers. The enemy: England's 20,000-strong youthful ragtag army of fans, feared throughout the Continent, loose in the land of cheap vino. They spilled from bar doorways and windows and gathered to taunt the restrained but ready Spanish police before England's match with France two weeks ago. England won, 3-1. One lad slurred: "These here cops are wankers. Our boys'll have...
...similarities between Viet Nam and El Salvador far outweigh the differences. The enormous infusion of money; the support given to a corrupt government that, like its opposition, uses atrocities to accomplish its objectives; American advisers attempting to train a ramshackle, ragtag army; and Washington debates about whether or not American ground troops will be needed to win. It's all much too familiar and, more to the point, irritating to the deep national wounds that have barely stopped oozing...
...Bermuda Shoot is part of what makes Harvard basketball games the homey, fun-for-the-whole-family get-togethers that they are. It's one of the things that reminds the partisans to take the sport a little less than too seriously. The IAB, the ragtag Harvard band, and the pack of little kids who play bumper cars at the foot of the grandstand serve the same purpose...
...ragtag militia review served as an ominous end to what Paisley billed as a "day of action" in protest against Britain's failure to move more forcefully against the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Less than a week after Paisley's supporters had gathered in mourning for the Rev. Robert Bradford, a Member of Parliament slain on Nov. 14 by I.R.A. gunmen, many of Northern Ireland's Protestants walked off their jobs in a day of demonstrations that disrupted the region. Paisley led a motorcade to the Parliament buildings in Stormont, which until the early 1970s were...