Word: tatterdemalion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jubilant and eclectic, yet a little ragged with the tatterdemalion feel of a county fair, Viet Nam's show of national pride captured perfectly, if unwittingly, the country's paradoxical fate: having prevailed over a superpower, Viet Nam has yet to come wholly to grips with itself. The nine aging Politburo members who waved stiffly from a reviewing stand could relish the memory of how they had stripped the American Goliath of $150 billion, 58,022 lives and, for a while, some of its self-confidence. But ten years after its moment of glory, the Socialist Republic of Viet...
...games and lost 108. They were the tatterdemalion remains of Charlie Finley's once noble dynasty (World Series champions in 1972-74), and cheap enough to fit their owner's pinchpenny budget. The A's were not worth going to watch, and nobody did. The average attendance that year was 3,984. They were not even worth booing; when a player muffed a popup, the fans laughed instead...