Word: ragtag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worth only glancing notice. As things are, it is a satisfactory foothill, with the grand old mountain in view. There are no heroics, though there is plenty of calamity. Call and McCrae, too young and foolish to know better, short on everything except energy and ignorance, have joined a ragtag outfit called the Rangers, less a military force than a band of hungry looters, commanded by a puffing, self-anointed general. This faker has heard about Santa Fe, then a Mexican settlement, but does not know where it is. Nor does anyone else. Nevertheless, they set out to capture...
...mind-set that can entertain the notion that the Federal Government would car-bomb its own day-care center in order to disrupt a ragtag vigil is a mind-set that won't easily be appeased by government denials. After a 1993 investigation, the Justice Department blamed the Davidians for the suicidal fire and absolved the FBI of responsibility. Various groups of survivors and families of victims have initiated lawsuits against the Federal Government, seeking more than $1.5 billion in total damages. One group has hired former Attorney General and leftish advocate Ramsey Clark to handle its case...
...surprisingly, Vowl must simply vanish from this book. His pals, who miss and worry about him, mass at a provincial mansion to try and find out what is afoot. This ragtag cabal scans shards of Vowl's writings, an amalgam of mumbo-jumbo, looking for hints. Will chaos or stark fatality confront all participants of this odd squad of misfits, drawn inward in companionship to look for a missing Vowl...
Runaways. They are the refugees from a million private wars being waged across America -- a ragtag army of the abused and the ignored drifting aimlessly like flotsam out of sundered families. Each year as many as 1.3 million teenagers flee home, according to the National Network of Runaway and Youth Services. While the statistics are guesswork, social workers on the front lines perceive a worsening problem. "We're finding that the numbers are going up and the kids are getting younger," says Sister Mary Rose McGeady, president of New York City-based Covenant House. "In Houston the average...
...anything." By 1986 he had been up and around enough to make a critically acclaimed feature film, Tjoet Nya' Dhien, about an Indonesian woman who led an armed rebellion against the colonial Dutch in the late 19th century. Shortly thereafter Eros started up DeTik with a ragtag crew of 16 volunteers. Using the name of a defunct crime tabloid, Eros published his first commercial issue...