Word: ragtag
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...week's end the White House was still significantly silent. Washington dopesters guessed what the answer would be: to sweep the emergency housing program into the new catch-all agency for the ragtag ends of CPA and OPA. That would leave Wilson Wyatt standing in the rain...
...Ragtag Army. The 3,000 who remained were a ragtag little army of cooks, truck drivers, sailors, punishment platoons. But their commander was a man obsessed: tall, grey Colonel Andreas von Auloch. He had been at Stalingrad, had seen the Russians turn that siege to victory. Captured Germans said he was a madman, added that his wife and children had been killed in a Berlin bombing...
Their troops on all fronts were tired, mournfully seeded with ragtag & bobtail levies from the conquered countries of Europe. The troops they faced were well-trained, superbly equipped and by now better fighting machines, weight for weight, than the Reich could muster...
...familiar America-Firstish faces were there in the Mural Room of Chicago's Hotel Morrison: the furtive, snickering little women who pass around anti-Semitic postcards; the Coughlinites; the pinch-lipped, waspish old couples with gleaming eyes; the Patrick Henry Forumites; the overcorseted We the Mothers; the fanatical ragtag & bobtail of a 100% star-spangled movement...
...Only a ragtag handful of Germans, the diehards of a vaunted army of 330,000 trapped more than two months ago, remained entrenched in the wreckage of Stalingrad's factory area. Another 900 of them had been killed in the last few hours, and many more were captured...