Word: ragtag
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...ignore this arrangement, has offered economic aid to the Bhutanese directly. Primitive and virtually roadless, Bhutan was first opened up to the outside world in 1959; the country has only two doctors and about 20 pharmacists. India has sent a small military training mission into Bhutan to modernize its ragtag 10,000-man army...
...Loose in the Congo were 3,000 wild men with machine guns, rifles, pistols, and a penchant for bizarre murder. These were the soldiers of the Central Congolese army, who took their orders from Antoine Gizenga's secessionist Stanleyville regime. Now, with Gizenga's authority broken, the ragtag little army roamed aimlessly through the eastern Congo, with few leaders and no purpose. They needed no excuse to kill; these were the men who pounced on the 13 Italian U.N. airplane crewmen in Kivu Province last November and hacked them to pieces simply because they were whites...
...seemed normal enough: harassed Premier Cyrille Adoula, struggling to hold his limping central government together, still pondered ways to whip Katanga's Secessionist Moise Tshombe into line, and noted nervously that Eastern Province's Antoine Gizenga talked of breaking away again to win autonomy for his own ragtag region. At U.N. headquarters, staffers looked forward to National Army Day, which, the army promised, would be celebrated by no parades-just by "calm and dignity...
...half mile away where an accomplice had flashed his auto headlights to warn of the approach of the President's speeding caravan. Police guessed that the charge had been buried for days, failed to go off because rain had dampened its mechanism. Implicated in the plot was a ragtag crowd that included an insurance salesman from Sèvres, a buxom, blonde vaudeville magician who lived with a houseful of cats, dogs and parrots, a 45-year-old woman who sold string, and a thin, nervous onetime radio announcer, Martial de Villemandy, who was quickly arrested at a village...
...Ragtag Army. Dumped by the regular Democratic organization, Wagner is desperately shopping for influential backers. But so far he has produced only former Senator Herbert Lehman, avuncular head of a small reform Democrat movement. James A. Farley, far removed from the inner circles of New York politics, and blustering Mike Quill, president of the Transport Workers Union. With such a ragtag army, Wagner is almost sure to lose to Levitt if he insists on entering the Democratic primary. But the mayor is also the Liberal Party candidate, and can run on the Liberal ticket in the general election. At that...