There had been students here earlier - East German, mainly, but much like students anywhere else in the world - long-haired and tattily attired; but properly respectful, Harry had thought.

Rhoda at any age, and dressed as tattily as she was now in a dark green cotton summer skirt and a top in a shade of sludge, would still be remarkable to look at.

Only a select few could afford expensive adornments, which could then be used to exacerbate differences between people based on class, where people in fancy clothing would not want to be seen socializing with others dressed tattily.

Over time the travelers changed from the bewildered, tattily attired farm workers pictured in sepia photographs with their life's possessions in battered steamer trunks to purposeful young men and women with college degrees in their suit pockets.

Mr. Hussein is as evil as Hitler and Stalin (though his stature as a totalitarian monster dipped to second-rate bully when marines discovered palaces tattily decorated with cheesy pink synthetic sheets and vinyl floors instead of silk and marble.)

She was late, as she always was, and they only had about an hour and a half to talk before she had to go, and he was nervous and she looked tired though still beautiful in bright red cords, Arran jumper and tattily magnificent fur coat.