Word: tatterdemalion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iraq's young new army, trained by the British, has between 40,000 and 50.000 men organized into two divisions, with a third in the process of formation. Iran's 150,000-man army, for years a tatterdemalion outfit rotted by Communist infiltration and paralyzed by low morale, has been spruced up under the guidance of a U.S. military assistance group headed by Major General Robert McClure. currently consists of twelve passable divisions, three of them armored...
...nighters crowded into a Berlin theater to see Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), composed by a young highbrow named Kurt Weill on a text by a proletarian poet named Bert Brecht. Nobody thought it would last more than a few performances. How could an eight-piece orchestra and a tatterdemalion cast compete with the great music dramas of Wagner and the moderns? But two years later, Threepenny Opera was still running, and since then it has had thousands of performances, including a handful in the U.S. Last week it was revived in Manhattan's tiny (300-seat) Theater...
...have fun":* Wendy and her younger brothers, John and Michael, who accompany Peter on his personally conducted flying tour of Never Land; that dark and dreadful man, Captain Jas Hook with his syrupy voice and steel-hook hand, and his comic-strip crew of pirates; the Lost Boys, a tatterdemalion band of motherless waifs; Tiger Lily, demure princess of the Piccaninny Tribe of Indians; a popeyed, ticktocking crocodile who continually stalks the hysterically frightened Hook...
...Embry advanced in tatterdemalion disguise, the British retreated. Once he got close enough to be in danger from their artillery, but he never managed to catch them. When he reached the Channel, he found every coastal boat, down to the smallest dinghy, smashed...