Word: ragtag
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Colonel Sallal boasted that if Prince Hassan set foot in Yemen he would be slaughtered. Then, shrewdly, the Colonel ordered immediate and substantial pay raises for the 12,000 troops of Yemen's ragtag army...
Thanks for the mention and keep spelling my name right [Aug. 24]. Thanks also for pointing up that the ragtag, bobtail Atlanta racist newspapers are against me. I have a diploma from the grand jury which says I did no wrong...
...pact dissolves all barriers to trade and travel between the two countries, and makes the usual vow to regain "sacred Arab rights in Palestine." The promise of mutual military support strengthens the regimes of both Saud and Hussein. By itself. Saud's ragtag soldiery would be of little use in a full-scale war, but Hussein's crack, British-trained Arab Legion is the best of all the Arab armies...
Widely blamed for the violence are the ragtag followers of Joshua Nkomo, burly African boss of the Zimbabwe African People's Union, whose black nationalist organizations have twice been banned since 1959, only to reappear under a new name. Mild-mannered Nkomo, who has shown up frequently to plead his case for freedom at the U.N., insists that his group has refrained from violence. But he has yet to convince the government of Southern Rhodesia's white Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead...
...colonial dogface was Joseph Plumb Martin, whose Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, Interspersed with Anecdotes of Incidents That Occurred Within His Own Observation is the most complete surviving account of day-to-day life in the tents and trenches of the ragtag citizen army...