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Born to Jim and Flossie Haggard, Dust Bowl migrants from Oklahoma, Haggard grew up in a converted boxcar that his father, a carpenter for the railways, bought for $500.
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There was no better proof of Haggard as the great musical common denominator than the appearance of the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, who entered the stage wearing a classic Haggard fedora.
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Rebecca Haggard, a spokeswoman for the Naval Surface Forces Pacific.
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They're filthy and haggard, and they don't seem entirely lucid.
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As Miri, Haggard screams, she sings, she scowls, she flirts.
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You will appear haggard, bloody, ferocious and, in fact, dead.
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Haggard passed away on his 79th birthday, The Bakersfield Californian reports.
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"This is the name of the game in science," said Haggard.
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Merle Haggard always said he was dreaming one more hit record.
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Local media showed researchers' images of the haggard lion in 2014.
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Haggard was a principled man, even when those principles were unpopular.
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"People are haggard and tired and maybe become impatient," Fuller says.
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So, like I said, I tried hard to hate Merle Haggard.
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" The idea of Europe had become, he said, "elderly and haggard.
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Though his mother, Ms. Giuliano, also looked haggard, she remained unbent.
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Here is a Mr. Haggard not often heard: lovestruck, sweet, deferential.
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Life for Miri Matteson (Daisy Haggard) post prison hasn't been easy.
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The two have a haggard look and appear emotional in the video.
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Merle Haggard (April 6) sauntered to the spotlight after a short break.
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It has paid A$19 million in compensation to customers, Haggard said.
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Haggard died at his California home after a battle with double pneumonia.
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Gregorio, a 62-year-old former carpenter who lives alone, looked haggard.
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"I was pretty haggard on the day of the finals," he said.
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Mr. Haggard had recently canceled several concerts, saying he had double pneumonia.
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Merle Ronald Haggard was born on April 21977, 21994, in Oildale, Calif.
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" FROM COINAGE: The Real Cost of Going to Coachella At evening's end, Theresa Haggard – who sang, danced and wept through the concert – thanked the artists and said what was on everyone's minds: "I know Haggard is here right now.
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"Society needs to manage quite carefully how responsibility is allocated," Dr. Haggard said.
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The men look haggard and appear emotional in the 13-minute long video.
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Appearing in court via video conference, Purinton looked haggard and was soft-spoken.
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Haggard wrote about them in a way that was more humanizing than sympathetic.
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Despite his advancing age, Haggard maintained a robust touring schedule in recent years.
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Haggard believes that nothing significant will happen for at least a few months.
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Putting my haggard feet into that warm bubbly bath was a religious experience.
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I sense I'm judged at work for looking like a tired, haggard mom.
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Kim is basically saying Pyongyang will use weapons if under attack, Haggard said.
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Despite North Korea's reputation for being unpredictable, Haggard believes Kim is actually cautious.
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Now are you going to do 'Sing Me Back Home' by Merle Haggard?
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And U.S. prices are also high currently, warned the Meat Export Federation's Haggard.
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During the album I was definitely listening to a lot of Merle Haggard.
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My grandfather went to Mazer where he was standing haggard on the stairs.
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Mr. Haggard was already performing in public before he was sent to prison.
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The face in his jail booking photo is haggard, blank-eyed and ghastly.
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"North Korea is on the verge of feeling quite substantial economic distress," Haggard said.
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Appearing in court via video conference Monday, Purinton looked haggard and was soft-spoken.
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But Merle Haggard never did things the way they were "supposed" to be done.
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"Going to prison has one of a few effects," Haggard told Salon in 503.
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Does H. Rider Haggard really have a lock on the whole "best friend" concept?
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And his haggard good looks made him an ideal entrant into the fashion world.
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"'Back to Life' didn't need any of what I was going through," Haggard said.
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The puppets, by design, look noble and haggard; life on Trash Island isn't easy.
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The bread, looking haggard and possibly screaming for help, was again tough and unpleasant.
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"Done properly, parenting is a heroic act," she says, eyeing a very haggard Bob.
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Thanks for reading, NHL fans of the future, and sorry about our haggard appearance.
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"It probably set it back about 40 years," Mr. Haggard told GQ in 2012.
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Bill Cosby looked haggard and old as he stumbled on his way to the courthouse.
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I look haggard and like I just worked my ass off to get up there.
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The Navy had not yet put a price on the damage and repairs, Haggard said.
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I was haggard, weak, and stone cold sober due to the antibiotics I was on.
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"Merle Haggard — Live at Billy Bob's Texas," a 2004 concert, follows at 12:30 p.m.
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And these are just the immediate concerns of what will likely be a haggard nation.
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Country music legend Merle Haggard has died after battling double pneumonia ... according to his manager.
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The year before, Mr. Haggard had received his first big break when he was hired to play bass in the band of Wynn Stewart, an early exponent of the lean, hard-driving Bakersfield sound that Mr. Haggard and Mr. Owens went on to make famous.
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The H. Rider Haggard novel King Solomon's Mines, for example, caricatured "natives" as savage and primitive.
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CMT will air a tribute special, CMT Remembers Merle Haggard Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. ET.
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But these severed limbs, haggard faces, and fleshy lumps are actually made entirely out of dough.
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It looks like it's raining in Nashville today but really it's Tennessee tears for Merle Haggard.
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The case is notable in that ZTE acknowledged culpability and Beijing's response was muted, said Haggard.
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Decades later, Haggard was still being name-checked as an authentic alternative to prevailing Nashville sounds.
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Sure, Snapchat is where I could spill my secrets, pimpled and haggard, if I wanted to.
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Hemorrhaging money on projecting Kato Kaelin's haggard visage into an empty room may not make sense.
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It came with a side of haggard-looking sautéed spinach served at that familiar room temperature.
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"Ghosts of Country Past," the Stagecoach Band covers Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams and more.
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These men are full-on, red-faced, spurting-eyeballs, haggard-breathing weeping, and I love them.
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But Mr. Haggard was releasing albums at a breakneck pace, and they were a grab bag.
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So did Merle Haggard, rugged country poet of the common man and the locked-up outlaw.
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Andrea Rosen Gallery appointed four new partners: Trina Gordon, Teneille Haggard, Cory Nomura, and Samantha Sheiness.
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In 2009, Haggard told PEOPLE how he was doing "better every day" after undergoing lung cancer surgery.
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But an even more ecstatic response awaited the next performer, Haggard contemporary and recording partner Willie Nelson.
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Similarly, there will be a trio of haggard publicists, all working to clear their client's good name.
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Merle Haggard, legendary country singer and songwriter, died on Wednesday, according to TMZ and the Associated Press.
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Urban first saw Haggard perform live back in the '90s at the iconic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
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Then, the musicians: Nas, Beck, Elton John, The Avett Brothers, Willie Nelson, even the late Merle Haggard.
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In 2016, music has lost Prince, David Bowie, George Martin, Glenn Frey, and Merle Haggard, among others.
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Merle Haggard, country music's outlaw hero, whose voice was tinged with dignity and regret, died at 79.
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Merle Haggard was, undeniably, a great singer, some say the best that country music has ever produced.
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What Marty Haggard remembered, as he then described it, was neglect and harsh treatment by his father.
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It was late in the afternoon, and seven tired dancers turned their slightly haggard faces toward her.
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" An obituary on Thursday about the singer Merle Haggard misquoted one line in his song "Hungry Eyes.
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Ms. Haggard said she will vote in the Democratic primary, but she would not say for whom.
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Haggard, his "Breeders" co-star who brought her breast pump to auditions, described him as rigorously honest.
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He's haggard and worn down by the stories of others, but he can't read his own fortune.
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" A Guardian review of Garland's London show from the time said she was "thinner now, almost haggard.
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But the hopeful expectation that the trend could undermine authoritarian rule might be wrong, according to Haggard.
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Haggard has been told by doctors to rest and recover for at least one more month without performing.
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" He continued: "I remember when I was 15 years old on tour with Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard.
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It's easy to wonder what a working-class hero like Haggard would have been thinking about it all.
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Of course, the anti-establishment Haggard fit right in, though he only stayed on Anti for two albums.
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"That's not gonna happen," said Stephan Haggard, a professor of global policy and strategy at UC San Diego.
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In the year since the 2016 Grammys, numerous musical icons have died, from Merle Haggard to George Michael.
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RegretsA haggard, out-of-work Barney the Dinosaur befriends and is then taken advantage of by Mark Zuckerberg.
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Looking haggard during the first half of the song backstage, his face lights up as he goes onstage.
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Then, of course, Prince, Garry Shandling, Merle Haggard, George Michael, Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds and too many more.
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It wasn't until after his second stint at PSI that Haggard first started considering a career in music.
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" This is Mr. Haggard covering Ms. DeMent's lament on the death of her father, "No Time to Cry.
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Two years ago the BBC commissioned the series — when Haggard was nine months pregnant with her second daughter.
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I will not hope for this year's remakes being trotted out with their fancy CGI and haggard stars.
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In all these categories, he beat out competitors like Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty, Marty Robbins and Charley Pride.
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That Haggard, the one now permanently embedded into country music's DNA, was just one part of him, though.
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Tall and charismatic, Mr. Mattei might not seem natural as a haggard soldier prone to paranoia and hallucinations.
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How Merle Haggard was an inmate in the audience during Johnny Cash's first concert at San Quentin prison.
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How Merle Haggard was an inmate in the audience during Johnny Cash's first concert at San Quentin prison.
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Or to anyone who has encountered the tired-looking mannequins and haggard sales associates at many department stores.
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"The increase in marketization is almost certainly contributing to much more pronounced inequality and corruption," according to Haggard.
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The witch we're all most familiar with is old, haggard and warty, with tattered clothes and scraggly hair.
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But in the days that followed, Mr. Epstein started appearing more haggard, according to lawyers and prison staff.
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But in the days that followed, Mr. Epstein started appearing more haggard, according to lawyers and prison staff.
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"By the time I got to 18, I was haggard," and now she bellows out a throaty laugh.
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Haggard says nuclear weapons give North Korea's Kim Jong Un leverage to bargain with the rest of the world.
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Country legend Merle Haggard is currently being treated for a recurring bout of double pneumonia, his rep has confirmed.
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Like many country stars of his era, Haggard struggled for hits in the late '80s and into the '90s.
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This must have been what Merle Haggard felt like the first time he heard the Flying Burrito Brothers play.
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Both looked haggard and appeared to be speaking into a webcam, like those on the top of a laptop.
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Opposition politicians also don't wish to anger the world's second largest economy and Seoul's largest trading partner, Haggard added.
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BOHEMIA "Ghosts of Country Past," the Stagecoach Band performs songs by Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams and others.
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Haggard activists, observers and reporters try to catch a quick sleep on their desks, chairs and wherever they can.
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And there is good reason to believe the passions stirred by identity politics can renew a liberalism gone haggard.
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Ben Martin, who as a Time magazine senior photographer immortalized Richard M. Nixon's haggard 21989 o'clock shadow, the Rev.
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But last week Haggard canceled his shows for the month of April due to his continuing efforts to recover.
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Now 86, Foster hadn't produced an album since 2007 – and that one featured country deities Merle Haggard and Ray Price.
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"We deal with high temperatures frequently in Arizona," Executive Chief of Detention Tracy Haggard told VICE News in a statement.
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In recent months, in fact, Simpson and Haggard seemed to have somewhat become friends, playing dates together and swapping compliments.
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His father died when Haggard was a child, and he ran away from home and later served time in prison.
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Take this instead as a dire entry from a survivor's log, written by a haggard man living on knife's edge.
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In the days that followed, lawyers and prison staff say Epstein began looking haggard and sleeping on the floor again.
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And, for that matter, the school day—since some of the strongest research was done on haggard high school kids.
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The Red Raiders laugh, joke around and blast music during practices; their playlist includes hip-hop selections and Merle Haggard.
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Mr. Haggard was an adept study, and that was the style he relied on at the outset of his career.
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Faces in the trucks were grim, tired and haggard, and I can't express the feeling we had upon seeing them.
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By the time the Metropolitan Police in London dragged him from the embassy in April, he looked haggard and disheveled.
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The gaunt, haggard faces of the older men he cast alongside were flesh billboards warning of the wages of sin.
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Jeffrey Wright — at 53, younger, leaner and less towering, nowhere near haggard, and African-American — was not on those lists.
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A recent book by two scholars, Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, studied 25 cases of democracies backsliding into authoritarianism.
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Old friend Tanya Tucker picked "Farmer's Daughter" – a song she had last performed for Haggard at a long-ago birthday party.
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A skinny soldier, haggard from taking on a small army of wights, standing between the Night King and a strange teenager?
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Haggard died Wednesday, his birthday, of complications from pneumonia at his home in Northern California, his agent Lance Roberts told CNN.
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Last year he spent the July 4th weekend performing a series of dates in Texas with Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson.
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By the time he bribes baby Jack-Jack with a cookie, Mr. Incredible's haggard face is clouded by five o'clock shadow.
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"I guess I have to believe in miracles," Haggard said in a 2000 interview of a life filled with second chances.
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The cause of the issue has yet to be identified, and an investigation continues, said Lt. Rebecca Haggard, a Navy spokeswoman.
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Talking to my dad about Haggard used to be as comfortable as stepping into a well-worn pair of work boots.
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They had let her stay up to watch the results with them, and even in the dim light she looked haggard.
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But North Korean businesses have found Chinese partners or are creating front companies to use smaller Chinese banks, Mr. Haggard said.
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With his haggard face and wild beard, he seemed a distorted reflection of the trim, controlled man I met in 2010.
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Slager, looking haggard in a gray-and-white prison jumpsuit with his wrists shackled to his waist, gave his own testimony.
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His wife, Ally (Daisy Haggard), is also committed to and disillusioned by the reality of rearing their children, Luke and Ava.
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Flowery vocabulary muddles an already muddled plot: Inland is a grand and rollicking novel, reminiscent of Dickens or H. Rider Haggard.
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Unlike his friend Johnny Cash, Mr. Haggard didn't merely visit San Quentin State Prison in California to perform for the inmates.
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"You pathetic fucks!" purports to translate " Cette foule hagarde ," or "This haggard crowd"—the populace that mourns Gautier without understanding him.
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Compared with "Django and Jimmie," the album Mr. Nelson and Merle Haggard released last year, there's less vinegar here, and more circumspection.
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At that, we hear a door opening, and a haggard-looking man in a wrinkled Marco Rubio campaign T-shirt abruptly appears.
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How do you celebrate providing the emotional high point of the American Country Countdown Awards with your tribute to legend Merle Haggard?
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"In 20 years, when I'm old and haggard and out of work, I'll definitely be up for a season nine," she joked.
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It features the biting line, "Now they sound tired but they don't sound Haggard / They got money but they don't have Cash."
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Mr. Haggard died last week, at 79, leaving behind a rich and varied legacy: sociopolitical protester, playful historian, dismissive dissenter and more.
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Before the English actress Daisy Haggard knew what story she wanted to tell, she knew how she wanted that story to feel.
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James, who first worked with Haggard onstage 15 years ago and has now played her mother three times, had her own interpretation.
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This was a less haggard concept in 1999, as were the audio logs that System Shock 2 uses to tell its story.
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Reporter's Notebook LOS ANGELES — In the 1990s, I tried, without much luck, to produce a movie about Merle Haggard for United Artists.
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The doctor isn't that old, but he looks worn out and haggard, with dark circles under his eyes and pasty anxious skin.
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For the haggard traveler, remedies abound, from wearing sunglasses indoors to getting afternoon sun to drinking plenty of water to popping melatonin.
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Popcast This year, the world of pop music has been thick with mourning — Prince, David Bowie, Merle Haggard, and too many more.
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The haggard figure in the bed will be dead before you know it, and she's not going gentle into that good night.
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Haggard, gaunt, and handcuffed, he appeared in a Japanese court after being arrested at Tokyo&aposs Haneda Airport on November 19, 2018.
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In his 1985 mourner's lament, "Kern River," Mr. Haggard famously describes meeting and then losing his best friend in its treacherous waters.
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Mr. Haggard cited Lefty Frizzell, Elvis Presley, Jimmie Rodgers, Chuck Berry and Bob Wills as among the artists who influenced his sound.
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A duet that Ms. Owens and Mr. Haggard recorded, "Just Between the Two of Us," reached the country Top 21985 in 1964.
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It was like coming to a battlefield in France in World War I. They were so haggard and tired and half dead.
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Haggard was diagnosed with pneumonia last year and spent 11 days at the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage early this year.
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Rebecca Haggard, a spokeswoman for the Naval Surface Forces Pacific, called a "minor seawater intrusion" that the crew was able to patch temporarily.
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Country music singer Merle Haggard died of pneumonia on Wednesday — and was immediately remembered and mourned by fellow musicians, celebrities and his family.
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"He loved everything about life and he loved that everyone of you gave him a chance with his music," the younger Haggard wrote.
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Simple: few works of literature since Homer can match the piercing, unshakably humane gaze that Grossman turns on the haggard face of war.
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Cleverly, Hill House shows two versions of these main characters: Their younger selves in Hill House, and their haggard selves in the present.
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At the age of 22008, Haggard sat locked up in a San Quentin cell for attempted burglary after years of defying the law.
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Whatever the meaning, "Okie" and his follow-up single, the jingoistic "Fightin' Side of Me," convinced conservatives that Haggard was one of them.
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This particular type of punishment is fundamentally defensive in nature, according to Stephan Haggard, visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics.
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Last year, Zuckerberg could be forgiven for looking haggard at the office, given that he and his wife were parents of a newborn.
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Just two weeks ago, a haggard-looking Sloan testified before Congress about his efforts to clean up the various messes he had inherited.
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One thing we've always agreed on, though, is that outlaw country is the best country, and Merle Haggard is one of the greats.
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There's an ancient piano and occasional live music, which skews metal and punk or the sort of haggard country preferred by old punks.
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In memoriam: Merle Haggard, one of the most successful and influential singers in the history of country music, died on his 79th birthday.
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The fired North Charleston police officer looked haggard while wearing a striped gray-and-white prison jumpsuit in a federal court in Charleston.
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Steve Mayo, 63, fled the Camp Fire with his wife, Lorena Mayo, 60, and Lorena's mother, Virginia Haggard, 83, on Thursday, Nov. 8.
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They're also putting musicians to work online, performing on the bar's iconic stage, where Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard smile down on performers.
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"I was dumb as a rock when I wrote 'Okie From Muskogee,' " Mr. Haggard told the Americana music magazine No Depression in 2003.
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I have to pinch myself and remember how strange it is that Robin Williams, David Bowie and Merle Haggard are no longer with us.
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Beyond that, he occupied a sort of "weird folk demon" category in my head, hovering somewhere between Amigo the Devil, Jandek, and Merle Haggard.
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"North Korea is on the verge of feeling quite substantial economic distress," University of California San Diego Korea-Pacific program director Stephan Haggard said.
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Haggard recorded more than three dozen No. 1 country hits in a musical career that spanned six decades, from the 1960s into the 2010s.
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As Brendan Karet points out on Twitter, the photo of a haggard looking Clinton was manipulated by InfoWars, which then published the doctored photo.
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So he enlisted his friend, photographer Taylor Haggard, to shoot what may be the most gloriously over-the-top senior pics we've ever seen.
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Numerous outlets are reporting that Merle Haggard, one of the greatest country musicians of all time, has passed away at the age of 79.
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Indeed, each loading screen in Battlefield 1 presents concept art of a single veteran, haggard and dirty, standing tall to meet his next challenge.
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His newest release—an album of Merle Haggard covers, intended to memorialize the late, great country musician, who died last year—is no different.
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One day when she was 14, she was stopped by a haggard man asking for directions, which she provided, before continuing on her way.
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In our own divided time, polarization can make it difficult for artists to enter the arena in the same way Haggard and Cash did.
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This is what Ignatieff finds in Rio's favelas, in the municipal workers of Fukushima, in the haggard, persistent survivors of genocidal violence in Bosnia.
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And a handful of readers emailed to remind me that the late titan of Outlaw Country, Oildale's own Merle Haggard, already sang about them.
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Which is a shame, because "Okie" and also the public response to it reduce Mr. Haggard — who died on Wednesday, at 79 — to caricature.
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That album aside, Mr. Haggard rarely put on a happy face — his terrain was music about the downtrodden, the aggrieved, the incarcerated, the heartbroken.
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In 19933, Mr. Haggard was arrested and charged with burglary and, by his account, considered fleeing from police custody with an inmate nicknamed Rabbit.
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"Ideally, we'd like to move completely out of state," said Raeann Haggard, 229, who lives in Bakersfield with her wife and three foster children.
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According to Dr. Haggard, previous research has shown that the longer the perceived time lapse, the less responsibility a subject feels for a negative outcome.
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"An investigation into possible causes is underway, and the ship will receive more permanent repairs upon her return to port," Haggard said in a statement.
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I did it anyway, waking up later and later the days after, when I felt the consequences like a hangover: a heart-shattering, haggard ennui.
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We have a certain amount of sympathy for the judges of the competition, they can't give it to a haggard-looking rat dog every year.
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So many artists, including Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and Kris Kristofferson have been credited with establishing country music's working class ethos.
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A listen to any of the honky-tonk rippers and heartsick ballads below will make that clear enough (that Merle Haggard cover doesn't hurt, either).
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Neither of us have ever gotten the chance to see Haggard play, and the thought that we've missed our shot altogether makes my heart ache.
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Do we need to see where the tentative romance between Miri and Billy will go, no matter how charmingly it's played by Haggard and Akhtar?
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Like many Haggard songs, it's about disappointment with the way things are going: The night life is gone, and the Kern River has dried up.
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She's haggard and worn, with eyes so sharp and wounded that they seem to look through you and into the shame of your own past.
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On Thursday, Vietnamese officials offered a vague statement of regret, and in the evening, state-run television broadcast images of a haggard-looking Mr. Thanh.
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The other man proceeded with the escape without Mr. Haggard and managed to elude capture until he was caught after fatally shooting a state trooper.
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So as we walk the property we ask that you follow a few rules: Haggard though some may look, do not give the hosts treats.
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Buck Owens and Merle Haggard were the city's superstars, but this copious 1503-CD set, which includes an extensively researched hardcover book, digs far deeper.
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Yet we follow McIntyre into the jungles as eagerly as if we were children lost in an adventure novel by (a politically corrected) H. Rider Haggard.
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At the short hearing, alleged shooter Adam Purinton, 51, sat quietly, wearing an orange jumpsuit and looking haggard, his hair scraggly, sometimes whispering to his attorney.
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The Trio of Haggard Publicists — Nicole Kidman, Thandie Newton, and Laura Dern All three will have cropped pixie cuts and will do a lot of yelling.
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Cops in Bridgeport, Connecticut, are like the movie version of Boston cops: haggard-faced, pushy, and always involved in some internal drama that's in the papers.
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Ronald Reagan gave him a full pardon for his crimes and the next year, Haggard played the White House for First Lady Pat Nixon's birthday party.
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Throughout the two-and-a-half-hour event, hearts kept turning to the spirit and music of the legendary Merle Haggard, who passed away last week.
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But Keith Urban says count on it to turn into a lovefest for country music great Merle Haggard, who died last Wednesday on his 79th birthday.
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After performing backstage for Lefty Frizzell at a show in Bakersfield, the singer invited Haggard to perform onstage, giving him his first taste of the spotlight.
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"A week ago dad told us he was gonna pass on his birthday, and he wasn't wrong," his son, Ben Haggard, wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.
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"The bottom line: The sanction resolution is sweeping in scope," said Stephan Haggard, a North Korea watcher and professor at the University of California, San Diego.
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President Obama's top spokesman on Wednesday hailed Merle Haggard as a "legend" of country music who will be sorely missed by his fans across the country.
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In the 90s, he had a ranch in Montana, and roped in rodeos, feeding on old-school country singer-songwriters like Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash.
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Although one of his songs, "If I Could Only Fly," was recorded by Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, Blaze is little known outside country-music circles.
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"Okie From Muskogee" A song protesting protest, the 1969 Merle Haggard country classic (co-written with Roy Edward Burris) is about as polarizing as it gets.
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A haggard loner with a thousand-yard stare and a melancholy air, he claims to be a former soldier who has been in inhospitable places before.
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But Mr. Haggard, who released dozens of albums — beginning in 1965, right up until last year — is the country music titan who most resists easy categorization.
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Mr. Haggard published two autobiographies: "Sing Me Back Home," written with Peggy Russell, in 1981, and "Merle Haggard's House of Memories: For the Record" in 1999.
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Ms. Haggard said that two of those children suffer from asthma, and that the smog of Bakersfield makes them sick, especially in the hot summer months.
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The lineup includes Alabama Shakes, Beck, Elton John, Los Lobos, Nas, Raphael Saadiq, Rhiannon Giddens, Steve Martin, Edie Brickell, Taj Mahal, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard.
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I've noticed that women in dieting "after" pictures commonly have a new hair color, while older male marathon runners are more gray and haggard than average.
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"The image of an isolated, failing North Korea needs revision," according to Stephan Haggard, a widely followed North Korea watcher who authored the report's opening remarks.
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Urban similarly closed out 2016 with a rocking tribute that honored that year's fallen, including David Bowie, Merle Haggard, Glenn Frey of the Eagles and Leonard Cohen.
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Although he was initially leery of publicizing his criminal past, Haggard eventually heeded friend Johnny Cash's advice to write songs about the darker chapters of his life.
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Taystee meets with a haggard public defender who informs her the state has built a case against her on two counts: Organizing the riot and killing Piscatella.
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Again a mysterious lad in a mysterious kingdom, though now paired up with the giant monster, a haggard-yet-cuddly pigeon-rat that appears to loathe windchimes.
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"The humanitarian team on the ground witnessed people in Moadamiyeh looking thin and haggard and children looking small for their age," the agency said in a statement.
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Towering over you and milling about are dozens of older white men, silver in the beard and haggard in the face, antique rifles slung over their shoulders.
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But Haggard, who cited "relentless optimism" as her defining quality, prefers to look at her journey differently: "I think I've just had a varied career," she said.
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But Magic Radio Network, whose private stations have 4.1 million weekly listeners, plays a version where MacColl sings "you're cheap and you're haggard" and also mutes "slut".
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Among the first, and not the least important, of those lessons was that Mr. Haggard, who often toured by bus, liked to keep a Pocket Fisherman handy.
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Cumberbatch (using a deep, gravely American accent) is haggard, desperate, on his last dollar and in search of the person who has apparently reversed a man's paralysis.
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On the strength of one of that record's successors, "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers," written by Liz Anderson, Mr. Haggard moved to Capitol Records in 1965.
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Merle Haggard, who died on Wednesday, his 79th birthday, wrote some of the greatest songs in American music about drinking, working, prison, love, morality, memory and modernity.
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My favorite for smoothing the eye area before an event or anytime I want to look less haggard is the Elemis Pro-Collagen Hydra Gel Eye Masks.
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Remembering Nancy Reagan, David Bowie, Harper Lee, Merle Haggard, Anita Brookner, Clyde Lovellette, Anne Jackson, Monte Irvin, Maurice White, Umberto Eco and others who died this year.
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Specifically highlighted are ports in China, Iran, Russia and Syria that "do not engage in inspections and essentially permit transshipment and trade to take place," Haggard continued.
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As for the star, Neeson has whittled his winter persona down to a haggard nub of weary anger, purging any inkling of gentleness, melancholy or self-awareness.
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"It's a cool measurement that resolves a lot of tensions we saw in slightly lower resolution measurements," Daryl Haggard, assistant professor of physics at McGill University, told Gizmodo.
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For the next three hours, a staggering list of stars offered Theresa Haggard – and the world – ample evidence of his immortality in a tribute to the country titan.
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His mother, looking haggard, was drowsing by the bed; waking, she crushed his hand in hers, bent to kiss his cheek and, he thought, breathe in his hair.
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In life, Haggard was a giant of classic country music, one of a few singer-songwriters in a certain generation who got to go by just one name.
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Despite his misspent youth, four failed marriages and battles with drugs and alcohol, Haggard had a rosy view of his own life in a 2012 interview with CNN.
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And much like in the US case, there's a key intersection between the legal and political systems — the "contentious politics" that Haggard and Kaufman see as so important.
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Clinton honored McCartney as part of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2010, hosting a dinner with McCartney, composer Jerry Herman, songwriter Merle Haggard and artist Bill T. Jones.
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Here's the thing: while some will persist that a couple of hashtags are a tiny issue, they're also haggard reinforcements of gender stereotypes which makes them objectively sexist.
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Watch as our haggard villainess-turned-sultry vixen, Creedence, seduces a horned-up teenager using a cob of corn she miraculously turns into a trailer's worth of popcorn.
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"In some sense, this is a defensive crouch," said Stephan Haggard, Korea-Pacific Program director at the University of California San Diego, referring to the apparent ICBM display.
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If Kim is test firing missiles or conducting a nuclear test on North Korean soil, he's not moving across the DMZ and directly threatening other countries, Haggard said.
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By 1965 he had enrolled at Harvard University to study theology, but the songs of Merle Haggard provided nothing short of a religious experience for the young musician.
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Merle Haggard was in San Quentin for a couple years, and in fact he was there in 1959 when Johnny Cash did his famous concert at the prison.
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So when Haggard started recording in the '60s, it was with a guitar-centric, stripped-down sound that prominently featured the keening leads of the Fender Telecaster guitar.
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Nashville extolled its heroes and loyal insiders at the 50th annual Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday night, honoring Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Randy Travis and Merle Haggard.
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He won a Grammy Award in 1998 for "Same Old Train," a collaboration with a dozen other artists, including Clint Black, Merle Haggard, Patty Loveless and Randy Travis.
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PARDUBICE, Czech Republic — As dusk settled over the rambling Czech countryside, a group of haggard workers emerged from a dank three-story concrete dormitory and jammed into buses.
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He was just a teenager when Lefty Frizzell, his musical idol, invited him to join him onstage after hearing Mr. Haggard singing along with him from the audience.
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Ms. Krauss requested horns like those that Merle Haggard sometimes used, and for once, her fiddle fills are dwarfed by the frequent, pillowy flourishes of a string section.
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The "honky-tonk" bands that play the White Horse are mostly electric country in the outlaw tradition of Texas's favorite son, Willie Nelson, and the likes of Merle Haggard.
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As he waded in, Pop told me that he'd once stayed at a Holiday Inn in Tallahassee, missing a Merle Haggard performance in the hotel bar by a day.
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After all, as a colleague noted Wednesday, there's nothing more country than dying on the day you were born, which Haggard did on April 6, having just turned 79.
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" Back in 2000, when No Depression ran a cover story about him titled "Stay a Little Longer," Haggard told the writer, Kurt Wolff, "The bottom line is the music.
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Along with Buck Owens and Wynn Stewart, Haggard was one of the notables who created the "Bakersfield sound," which used electric instruments and a strong beat in country settings.
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Dictators and Democrats, a book by scholars Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman, looked at a large data set on modern democracy to analyze the best predictors of democratic survival.
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You're going to find Strait, you're going to find Seger, you're going to find James Taylor, Haggard, Jones, Whitley… you're going to find all those people that influenced me.
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Though he joked the family "lived like The Beverly Hillbillies," his early years were happy until his father died of a cerebral hemorrhage when Haggard was 9 years old.
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The late fiddler Johnny Gimble, who performed or recorded with Hall of Fame members Bob Wills, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and George Strait, was chosen in the musician category.
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Legendary country star Merle Haggard died Wednesday on his 79th birthday, a coincidence that wouldn't seem out of place in one of Haggard's many indispensable contributions to country music.
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I once had a friendly debate with a peer, an individualist type who loves Merle Haggard, straight shooting, and driving long distances over the out-west neo-dust bowl.
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For example, many of his illustrations have a very dainty look to them, but upon closer inspection you may notice that the people's faces are slightly grotesque or haggard.
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What powerful political woman is mocked for her clothes, is the target of pictures on Twitter depicting her as haggard and is routinely called a witch and a bitch?
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If Periscope adds more masks, or launches filters and other effects, it could get people to stream even if they're having a bad hair day or look a little haggard.
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But the young Haggard also learned early on that he had a talent for music and found his idol in country singer Lefty Frizzell, whose honky-tonk style he imitated.
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After the American Idol performance finale, Keith Urban revealed that he began his album listening party on Wednesday with a song by Haggard as a way to honor the musician.
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It's the most vulnerable we've ever heard Gaga be, and vulnerability is an important part of the country tradition, just ask Haggard, Cash, or any member of the Carter family.
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Though last year's Grammy Awards occurred weeks after David Bowie's death, the 12 months since have seen many beloved performers die, including Prince, Merle Haggard, Leonard Cohen and George Michael.
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His manager confirmed that Haggard, a Grammy-winning native of Bakersfield, CA and architect of the iconic "Bakersfield sound," died at his home in California at 9:20am this morning.
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But the list is long: George Martin, the Eagles' Glenn Frey, Sharon Jones, Earth, Wind and Fire founder Maurice White, Leon Russell, Merle Haggard, Phife Dawg, Keith Emerson, Greg Lake.
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That label is only partly true; it most applies to his similarities to Merle Haggard, who of the original 1970s outlaws, was the most slippery and the most musically expansive.
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Mr. Sweat believed the sergeant was confused because Mr. Sweat had shaved the night before as part of his plan for not looking like a haggard convict on the run.
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Aside from his impressively high kill count (upward of two hundred!), there's little to set Siddiq apart from the other haggard, haunted stragglers that cross paths with the Alexandria crew.
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Tender yet serrated, Mr. Simpson finds unexpected fertile ground at the intersection of Bill Withers, Merle Haggard and Elvis Presley, replete with roadhouse guitar and spiky classic R&B horns.
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Johnny Cash's performance at San Quentin prison is better known than the fact that Merle Haggard, whose lyrics later immortalised the "Okie from Muskogee", was an inmate at the time.
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In their experiments, Patrick Haggard, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, and his colleagues measured how the participants' "sense of agency" changed when they did something negative to another person.
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It's as much a toast to his love of Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen, as exemplified on the standout "Bittersweet Company," as celebrated outlaw country artists like Merle Haggard ("The Bull").
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This is probably because Blassie had reached the "haggard-looking grandpa who could grievously wound you with his cane" phase of his life/career and arguably wasn't the typical sex symbol.
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Loretta Lynn Steps Out For First Time After Stroke To Honor Alan Jackson Lynn joins previous recipients of the honor including Shania Twain (2016), Kenny Rogers (2015) and Merle Haggard (2014).
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Melanie Lynskey, looking perfectly haggard in a nightgown and robe, plays an upscale mother scrambling to stash her husband's freshly overdosed corpse before guests start arriving for her daughter's birthday party.
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Over a dozen photographers crowded around the witness table where Zuckerberg would sit as haggard staffers reminded them they would be expected to leave by the time the hearing kicked off.
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" It's not human nature, it's what they made you," Isabel coos on the album's title-track, offering open arms to "The Witch"—a typically knobbly-fingered, haggard and vilified female figure.
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Haggard said it's possible that things might have changed in the decades since, as the country has taken on big construction projects in Pyongyang, which requires importing building materials from China.
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After a series of rocky relationships, financial boom and bust and struggles with gambling and drug use, Haggard finally found the happiness at home with his fifth marriage to Theresa Lane.
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Raids this month The anti-graft agency said it raided the Lagos apartment after a tip about a "haggard" woman in "dirty clothes" taking bags in and out of the unit.
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Dictators and Democrats, a book by scholars Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman, looked at a large data set on modern democracy to analyze what the best predictors of democratic survival were.
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The anti-graft agency said in a statement it raided the apartment Tuesday after a tipoff about a "haggard" woman in "dirty clothes" taking bags in and out of the apartment.
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A former paratrooper, he appeared at a court hearing in March, looking haggard and walking with a stick after spending weeks in a solitary cell and being beaten by prison guards.
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And this year, during the after-party at Francisco's Restaurante y Cantina in Durango, they joined forces to sing songs like "Have You Ever Been to Colorado," popularized by Merle Haggard.
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An Appraisal By the time Merle Haggard reached a certain age, it was clear that he had begun to fatigue of some choices, and songs, he made as a younger man.
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It's possible Mr. Haggard hadn't sounded that cheerful on an album since 1966, when he released "Just Between the Two of Us," a duet album with Bonnie Owens, his second wife.
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And all the poses that Mr. Haggard helped innovate became familiar tropes, now worn smooth by the passage of time and by continuous refinement by generations of singers that followed him.
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The anguished scene that will stay with me for a long while came late, a moment of motherly longing, when Silvia, now grimy, haggard and delirious, thinks about her little boy.
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North Korea could be testing missiles with such intensity this year due to more financial challenges, said Stephan Haggard, director of the Korea-Pacific program at the University of California San Diego.
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It's a pugnacious patriotism that one can hear in country singer Merle Haggard's song, "The Fighting Side of Me." Haggard released the song as anti-war protests surged during the Vietnam War.
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The Thaad deployment and joint exercises come as the U.S. and South Korea become increasingly impatient with China's attempts to keep its ally North Korea in check, Haggard told CNBC's "Squawk Box ".
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"Unlike decades ago, there are no longer large chunks of the population out there that are not yet eating meat," says Joel Haggard of the US Meat Export Federation, an industry group.
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" That year, Mr. Simpson, who lived in Bakersfield, was a featured performer at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibition "The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and California Country.
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" In this melancholy mood, he started playing "some old country songs," including "The Way I Am." When he heard the next day that Haggard had died, "it sent chills up my spine.
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If Dany's general haggard appearance wasn't foreshadowing enough, we get lots of good, salt-of-the-earth shots of the innocent citizens of Kings Landing with their doe-eyed children in tow.
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The novel, King Solomon's Mines, was written by H. Rider Haggard and in theory it was the first modern — or you could say respected — science fiction novel to feature a solar eclipse.
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When the first edition came out, a lot of readers said that Haggard had completely misrepresented a solar eclipse as something that could last for hours, rather than just a few minutes.
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Photo via Facebook Sturgill Simpson, Grammy-nominated country artist and poster boy for outlaw country, is not pleased with the way the Academy of Country Music is treating the late Merle Haggard.
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The statement, posted in response to the news that the ACM will honor the "Okie from Muskogee" singer at this year's award show, addresses the bullshit way Haggard was treated in Nashville.
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Messi, meanwhile, had to make do with Cristian Pavon and Enzo Perez, who play in Argentina's bruising top flight, and a haggard Javier Mascherano who is seeing out his career in China.
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At this point, one can imagine a haggard Sean Penn at the open mic, hunched over and shout-growling into the microphone, which he's probably holding way too close to his face.
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The grind, and that's what this is, a frantic adrenaline bender from birth until, best case, you grow haggard and collapse, makes their death from deforestation and hunting somehow even more indecent.
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"I dropped an email to Hugh before we began shooting telling him that I had lost 20 pounds in preparation for this movie because I wanted to look haggard," the actor says.
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"You've had this extraordinary, massive, enormous experience but you haven't actually had some quite fundamental, day-to-day life experiences and I thought that was just a really interesting story," Haggard said.
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Generally speaking, the genre draws from a canon by country legends including Merle Haggard and Buck Owens — more tilted, perhaps, to the Southwest than Nashville — sometimes blending Diné phrases into the songs.
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Few country artists have been as popular and widely admired as Mr. Haggard, a ruggedly handsome performer who strode onto a stage, guitar in hand, as a poet of the common man.
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The entire interview appears to have been engineered to dispel suspicions that Weinstein, who showed up to a recent Manhattan court appearance looking haggard and using a walker, is exaggerating his ailments.
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One of the secondary sanctions efforts deals with jurisdictions that are non-compliant with U.N. resolutions, Stephan Haggard, visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics, said in a Monday note.
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"This is what the U.S. should be doing, but finding it out ain't easy," said Stephan Haggard, a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, which is based in Washington.
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The term was coined by British film and television director, Piers Haggard, in a 2003 interview with Fangoria magazine when he was asked about his own film The Blood on Satan's Claw.
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Dr. Haggard and his colleagues also asked participants to estimate the time between taking action — in this case, pressing a computer key — and the resulting financial loss or electric shock to another person.
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"I'm very grateful that Merle Haggard has another No. 1 under his belt," Urban, 51, told the gathering of about 100 friends and colleagues before he performed an acoustic version of the song.
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Sellers grew up listening to traditional country music artists like George Jones and Merle Haggard, but she also found influence from famous bands from the '70s like Led Zeppelin and Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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Recent figures showed that coal sales were down 12 percent since the sanctions were put into effect, a marginal amount, said Stephan Haggard, a Korea specialist at the University of California, San Diego.
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This episode quietly observes Ezekiel in flashback as he ritualistically prepares to greet his subjects, carefully going through the routine of washing himself, trimming his haggard beard and individually hand-rolling each dreadlock.
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Isabella Rossellini was recently reinstated as the face of Lancôme after being fired by the French cosmetics house in 1996 for, she says, being too old (she was a haggard crone of 43).
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A subdued Miranda Lambert channeled the Haggard gloom in "Misery and Gin," delivering it in a black dress and ending with her hands in prayer, a glance upward and a wave to the heavens.
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Looking haggard with his hair mussed, the 66-year-year-old Epstein entered his plea in Manhattan federal court, where he was clad in a blue jumpsuit, a brown undershirt and bright orange sneakers.
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Born in Bakersfield, California, to Dust Bowl migrants from Oklahoma, Haggard spent large chunks of the 1950s in prison, including a stint at the San Quentin prison where he witnessed Johnny Cash's legendary performance.
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All those bleary faces and those haggard men and those pumped-up women in their see-through dresses, with everyone's nipples poking out and those fixed, glittering, maniacal smiles on all the girls' faces.
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Stephan Haggard, a University of California San Diego professor and co-author of Hard Target: Sanctions, Inducements, and the Case of North Korea, told Vox that businesses' knowledge of supply chains can be spotty.
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As Imaginary Jessie, Gugino is vibrant and intense, and Flanagan gets some powerful imagery out of the increasingly noticeable gap between her and Real Jessie, who progressively gets more haggard and drained throughout the film.
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In a hilarious series of video posts, the singer, 40, stands on stage completely naked and addresses the shocked ACM audience (Jason Aldean and Merle Haggard are not amused!) before waking up from his nightmare.
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China signed off on a list of United Nations sanctions against North Korea earlier this year in response to its fourth nuclear weapons test, but has been dragging its feet on their implementation, Haggard said.
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Cynthia Erivo of Broadway's The Color Purple and John Legend performed an arrangement of The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" to honors star as Merle Haggard, Joey Feek, and Juan Gabriel — Grimmie was notably absent.
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"Mama Tried" by Merle Haggard (1968) Campbell featured on many of the Outlaw Country icon's early albums, including Swinging Doors (1966), I'm a Lonesome Fugitive (1967), Branded Man (1967) and Sing Me Back Home (1968).
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Merle Haggard, the country music giant whose pioneering outlaw stylings and hard edges steered the genre in a direction that still endures today, died Wednesday, his 19663th birthday, his manager confirmed to Nashville's WSMV-TV.
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The interspersed scenes of their performances act as punctuation to the arduous task of preparation, moments in which the haggard and jetlagged young men snap into focus and put on their carefully choreographed, overwhelming productions.
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He's like Ted Haggard, the Colorado megachurch pastor who once had the ear of President George W. Bush on a weekly basis, but lost everything because of a male prostitute and a bag of meth.
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The smiling, charming coach who arrived at Chelsea declaring himself "a special one" 14 years ago has long been replaced by a surly, haggard-looking operator, generally dismissive of any questioning of his personal responsibility.
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"How much cooperation will the international community get from Cuba, Russia, Iran or even Pakistan, Bangladesh or Laos?" asked Stephan Haggard, an expert on the North Korean economy at the University of California, San Diego.
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Mr. Foster sold Monument and Combine in the 1980s but continued to work as a producer, most notably on "Last of the Breed," a 2007 album that teamed Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Ray Price.
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"'Coming Home' started with an idea I had of using the intro of one of my favorite Haggard songs, 'Mama Tried,' to build an entirely new song around it," Urban, 50, explains in a press release.
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Mr. Simpson also wrote "You Don't Have Very Far to Go" for Mr. Haggard in 1965 and "Close Up the Honky Tonks," recorded by Mr. Owens in 1964 and later by Gram Parsons and Dwight Yoakam.
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The men on trial, now looking haggard and sickly and distraught, answer questions in clipped dialogue, which feels alien compared to the mounting panic we see every time the episode cuts back to that horrible night.
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"(The) biggest target for Kim has been repairing the relationship with China, where sanctions have really strained the North's export earnings," said Stephan Haggard, an expert on the Koreas at the University of California San Diego.
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That has alleviated some of the crushing pressure on David Moyes and Mike Phelan, both of whom have recently taken on the air of haggard, long-haul truck drivers after a long succession of sleepless nights.
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Haggard and starving, Denny's Twitter stumbled out of the woods at the news of Beyoncé's twins, its mouth agape over the fact that something could happen in the world that they could make a joke about.
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Haggard was raised in a family of charismatic Christians — a group who believe in the ongoing activity of the Holy Spirit in the world via gifts like prophecy, healing, and speaking in tongues — in rural Indiana.
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Defying the conventions of the Nashville musical establishment, Mr. Haggard was an architect of the twangy Bakersfield sound, a guitar-driven blend of blues, jazz, pop and honky-tonk that traced its roots to Bakersfield, Calif.
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The year 2016 has delivered a string of deaths that serve as bracing reminders of this inevitability: Prince, Nancy Reagan, David Bowie, Elie Wiesel, Bill Cunningham, Muhammad Ali, Gordie Howe, Merle Haggard, Patty Duke, John Glenn.
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The positive reception of the record led to comparisons to Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard which—in the language of country music—means he was a good artist with just enough edge to be considered an outlaw.
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He was California born and raised, and, though it has become a braggadocio tagline for hat acts on country radio, it's actually true to say of Merle Haggard that he was country 'til the day he died.
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Mr. Simpson was playing in local clubs and writing songs for Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and other artists in the mid-224s when Ken Nelson, Mr. Haggard's producer, signed him to Capitol Records to record truck songs.
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With Buck Owens, Haggard was a progenitor of what became known as the "Bakersfield Sound," an alternative to the more maudlin "Nashville Sound," and an early iteration of what would become known as roots rock or Americana.
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Haggard, with her distinctive features — a cross of Modigliani portrait and midcareer Penny Marshall — plays Miri as a bashful but stubborn catalyst for the action, an unavoidable object disrupting 18 years of small-town rationalization and avoidance.
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In the new production, which is directed by Marianne Elliott, the Angel is zombie-like and haggard—a celestial being for a world that has fallen further even than might have been imagined when the play premièred.
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When Miri Matteson (Daisy Haggard) re-emerges in her isolated seaside hometown after spending 18 years in prison for a violent crime, it's her secretive past, and that of those around her, that come to the fore.
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Like Haggard, it wasn't any end times rhetoric or prosperity gospel hucksterism that lost Bakker his ministry, it was that he had the audacity to succumb to his sexual urges that made Christians turn away from him.
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In 1970, Mr. Haggard released "A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or, My Salute to Bob Wills)," an affectionate album recorded with several surviving members of Mr. Wills's band, the Texas Playboys.
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After his release, Mr. Haggard performed in smaller bars in Bakersfield and later in larger rooms like the Blackboard, where he met Bonnie Owens, a cocktail waitress who had been married to the country singer Buck Owens.
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Turkey moved one step closer to that goal on Sunday when hundreds of Mr. Kobani's fighters and haggard civilians finally left the border town of Ras al-Ain, which Turkey and its Syrian proxies had heavily bombarded.
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Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Charlie Pride, Hank Williams Jr. — they're all genre icons who first met resistance because of their desire to make music different from the norm of their day, then ended up establishing new norms.
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Sonny Beaumont, Jr., once Cross River's greatest barber, now looked like a haggard old troll; he was about forty-five years old, and resembled a wrinkled set of intertwined wires covered in the thinnest, baggiest brown flesh.
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" The beginning of the article poses the question: "What powerful political woman is mocked for her clothes, is the target of pictures on Twitter depicting her as haggard and is routinely called a witch and a bitch?
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Last year, Simpson shared a lengthy post on Facebook outlining his strong disapproval with the Academy of Country Music for what he believed to be their exploitation of outlaw country icon Merle Haggard following his death that April.
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On Wednesday, the country crooner released a new track, "Coming Home," from his forthcoming, highly anticipated album Graffiti U. Featuring Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum artist Julia Michaels, the song is inspired by late outlaw country legend Merle Haggard.
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The most well-known leaders of the Christian right that followed Graham's footsteps ended up being controversial for their politics and their personal lives, from the embezzlement scandals that dogged Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker to Ted Haggard.
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On this week's Popcast, I talk with Ben Ratliff about country music agitators then and now, and how both Mr. Simpson and Mr. Haggard have spent their creative energy moving left when everyone expected them to turn right.
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"The opposition has long believed that a confrontational stance toward the North is counterproductive, and needs to be balanced with greater engagement," explained Stephan Haggard, director of the Korea-Pacific program at the University of California San Diego.
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"This is probably the most complex financial transaction in history," Mr. Carswell, a deputy Treasury secretary at the time, said in 19853 as haggard departing Treasury officials mingled with their freshly minted successors arriving to celebrate Reagan's inauguration.
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It feels like celebrities have been dying in record numbers in 21 (in reality, it hasn't been all that different from past years), and that's especially true of legendary musicians: David Bowie, Prince, and Merle Haggard, among others.
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Of course, it's been years since Merle Haggard (or Johnny Cash, or Kris Kristofferson) was played regularly on country radio, thus each of these artists has found a more lasting embrace in the realm of "Americana" and "roots" music.
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Haggard, who was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997, became a father again at the age of 54 with the birth of daughter Jenessa, and two years later he and Theresa had a son, Ben.
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Before hitting it big as a solo recording artist, Campbell was a studio musician in the early '60s and played on recordings by Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, The Monkees, Merle Haggard, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Phil Spector.
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This series, which Haggard created and helped write, has already drawn comparisons to "Fleabag" — another female-led British show that shares the executive producers Harry and Jack Williams and has a similar focus on dark humor, grief and redemption.
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James Haggard died of a stroke in 22006, after which Mr. Haggard's mother, the former Flossie Mae Harp, a strict and pious member of the ultraconservative Church of Christ, took a bookkeeping job to provide for her three children.
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Several international media outlets have reported recently on a photo of a billboard in Montana that features a drawing of a haggard-looking Elsa in handcuffs alongside the tagline "Meth: Just Let It Go," an apparent reference to Frozen's hit song.
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"Institutions are likely to be effective [in stopping authoritarian backsliding] only if they are accompanied by strong social checks on political power: Through opposition parties, interest groups, NGOs, and the threat of contentious politics and mass mobilization," Haggard and Kaufman write.
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The original toys were given to Christopher Robin between 1920 and 1928 (Pooh was purchased at Harrods in London and originally named Edward, according to the NYPL) — they were also toys for the family dog, which contributes to their haggard appearance.
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SHEFFIELD, England (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When filmmaker Bernadett Tuza-Ritter met 52-year-old Marish, a Hungarian factory worker and maid, she was drawn to her haggard face - one that seemed as if it belonged to a much older woman.
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Sunday's startling death of pop singer George Michael caps 12 wretched months in which we've already said goodbye to David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Prince, Merle Haggard and Leonard Cohen, to name just a quintet of hugely popular and influential performers.
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"I didn't see the logic of expanding the exercises," Stephan Haggard, a professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego, and one of the authors of the North Korea: Witness to Transformation blog told CNN.
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The prices of imported goods in North Korea have remained stable, says Stephan Haggard of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, an American think-tank, suggesting that the latest round of sanctions has not led to a shortage of foreign currency.
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In fact, in the face of U.S. wavering on the Iran deal, the expert community working on North Korea issues "is scratching its head," Stephan Haggard, visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics, said in a recent note.
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Op-Ed Contributor In late 1969 and early 1970, when "Okie From Muskogee" was blaring from every jukebox in every beer joint, truck stop and restaurant in my hometown, San Antonio, I wanted, sometimes very much, to hate Merle Haggard.
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A loophole in the sanctions allows North Korean coal to be sold if the proceeds are used for humanitarian purposes, and that opening seems to have been exploited, said Stephan Haggard, a Korea expert at the University of California, San Diego.
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Dickey is the star of Hawke's new movie "Blaze," about the late Texas outlaw-country artist Blaze Foley, who wrote spare, beautiful songs, including "Clay Pigeons," covered by John Prine, and "If I Could Only Fly," covered by Merle Haggard.
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I remember sitting in the waiting room of a doctor's office, my newborn clutched to my chest and my face a haggard sight, reflecting some mix of being completely enamored with my child and having barely slept since her birth.
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" Haggard continued, "I wanted to write a show about a woman who had done something in her past and what that would be like, to try and start your life again with that enormous dark secret and baggage behind you.
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In one preview that I saw, a camera installed on the lip of the stage filmed Lampert's face during the trial, and projected the image onto a screen behind her: drenched in harsh white light, Lampert looked both haggard and unbroken.
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Daisy Haggard , who is also the show's creator, stars as Miri, a woman who was convicted of a serious crime many years ago and now, having been released from prison, is trying to build her life back in her small hometown.
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"Way Out West," his album due March 10, is a tribute to the country styles of California, and the obvious traditionalist choice would have been to make its title track celebrate the Bakersfield style of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard.
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In the earlier speech, appearing near desperation, a haggard-looking Mr. Macron promised a quick infusion of 10 billion euros to satisfy Yellow Vest demands, including an increase in the minimum wage and an easing of the tax burden on pensioners.
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As the Chibok girls waited patiently Wednesday to meet the man who signed off on their release -- Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari -- it was remarkable to see the physical transformation from emaciated and haggard looking former hostages to seemingly carefree and happy young women.
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Dressed in navy slacks, a white button-down shirt and several more layers, including a brown vest and a green sweater, Phoenix's Joker looks much more like a haggard civilian than a murderous clown in a purple suit and white face makeup.
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Demetrio said the American Airlines situation featured an "out-of-control" flight attendant, a "haggard mother" weary from travel, a passenger who wanted to protect the woman, and a captain who was out of the cockpit trying to deal with the uproar.
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Unfazed, Haggard doubled down on his message of staunch patriotism with "Fightin' Side of Me," and whenever that song came on, it underlined the message that, if you truly believe in something, you should stick to your guns and not back down.
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Both shows want to pull the rug out from under you, but where Phoebe Waller-Bridge of "Fleabag" is happy to let you hit the floor, Daisy Haggard in "Back to Life" is more inclined to catch you and set you down gently.
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Mr. Haggard later recorded for MCA, Epic and a number of other labels, reaching the country chart more than 100 times before radio stations, in the late 19993s, stopped playing his records in favor of those of a younger generation of artists.
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Harvey Weinstein showed up to court Monday morning for the first day of jury selection in his rape trial looking haggard and unsteady, hunched over a walker—something he's used nearly every time he's appeared in public over the past few months.
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Before that year ended, so did the lives of Glenn Frey of the Eagles; Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire; producer and "fifth Beatle" George Martin; Merle Haggard; Leonard Cohen; Leon Russell; Billy Paul; and Sharon Jones, to name but a few.
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Here are a few other things that I've been enjoying this week from some old friends, new discoveries, and dependable faves (they're not all metal, either—sorry not sorry, you're lucky I didn't just cue up fifteen Merle Haggard songs and leave it at that).
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Chen Qiushi looked haggard and disheveled in his online posts, an almost unrecognizable shadow of the energetic young man who had rolled into Wuhan on a self-assigned mission to tell its inhabitants' stories, just as authorities locked the city down almost three weeks ago.
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After watching the three episodes AppleTV+ sent to critics for review, I still had almost no sense of how Earth (and specifically the United States) got to be this way or what "this way" really meant in the context of this haggard future society.
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But my dad's been a construction worker since he was 18 years old, and he's taught me a lot about what it really means to be working class—and what he didn't say, he showed me every time he put on a Merle Haggard record.
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Haggard, a veteran character actress (known in America for Showtime's "Episodes") who's writing a series for the first time, makes Miri's re-entry to life in her insular seaside home of Hythe, Kent, an amusing, bittersweet jumble of lies, pain and small, hard-won victories.
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The film opens with a group of haggard actors preparing in a trailer and then trotted out to the scene of a wrecked tram by soldiers and wranglers, where they act as bystanders and witnesses, even giving TV interviews to reporters on the scene.
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Always a careful student, Mr. Haggard took an opportunity to pay tribute to one of country music's foundational figures, Bob Wills, who was the titan of Western swing, the roadhouse country-jazz of the 1930s and '40s that was a forefather of country music.
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The scope of celebrity deaths in 2016 seems especially heartbreaking, perhaps, because we have lost people who contributed so much -- musicians David Bowie and Merle Haggard, rapper Phife Dawg, actors Gene Wilder, Alan Rickman and Garry Shandling, women's basketball coach Pat Summitt, boxing champion Muhammad Ali.
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"It was no surprise that a lot of artists contacted me and asked if they could flip one of their songs to do a Haggard song," says Urban, who is bringing together a celebrity-packed lineup to Nashville's Bridgestone Arena for the sixth time since 2009.
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"Our products are a significant investment, so we want people to know what to expect before it's shipped and delivered," said Calvin Haggard, the chief executive of United States Stove Company, explaining why the nearly 150-year-old manufacturing business began offering an augmented reality app.
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Although the old country songs were part of the local environment, Strait didn't start paying close attention until after college, when he encountered some albums by a brilliant and mercurial singer-songwriter from California: Merle Haggard, a country "outlaw" who was also obsessed with the genre's history.
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Eight months before the film's release, he started screening the film at conferences attended by hundreds or even thousands of pastors, hosted by megachurches pastored by major figures such as Ted Haggard (who was then president of the National Association of Evangelicals), Joel Osteen, and Rick Warren.
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Les Paul, Merle Haggard, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Alice Coltrane, Captain Beefheart, the Neville Brothers and the Roots were given Bs. For the past two weeks, as news of the lost masters has reverberated through the music industry, UMG has been roundly criticized by artists and their representatives.
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"In China, smaller and midsize firms similarly are able to evade Chinese sanctions and thus exploit low labor and material costs in jurisdictions like North Korea; this is an example of how the North Koreans are able to avoid sanctions by 'flying under the radar,'" Haggard said.
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"With respect to all of the trade-related measures, China is the key actor given that it's share of the country's trade could reach as high as 90 percent following the closure of Kaesong if we include transshipment from third countries," Haggard said in a blog post Thursday.
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Merle Haggard was born in a boxcar in 1937, grew up on the plaintive strains of Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell, and—when he wasn't busy getting arrested for hopping trains and shoplifting—occupied himself by eking out the first stirrings of what would become his signature sound.
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When you read all the tributes today to the late Merle Haggard, all the mournful praise about what a great songwriter he was, remember that a big part of country music today has no interest in Mr. Haggard's big themes, the rage and sorrow of the working man.
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An annual jamboree for camo-loving trophy hunters, held at the Mandalay Bay hotel, the Safari Club convention featured "pay to slay" auctions—where attendees bid to join big-game safaris to kill animals like lions and leopards—and live music from Merle Haggard and Blood, Sweat & Tears.
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"The objective of a statement like this is not to follow through; the objective is to send a credible signal that would make the North Korean leadership think twice," Stephan Haggard, an expert on the North Korean economy at the University of California, San Diego, said of the Global Times editorial.
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"I didn't think I would have a song, and even if I had a song, I certainly didn't think it would end up going to No. 1," admits Green, who was raised on a hearty mix of George Jones and Merle Haggard as a kid growing up in the South.
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After being convicted of attempted robbery as a teenager, Haggard spent several years in California's San Quentin State Prison, where he heard Johnny Cash play and was talked out of trying to escape by his fellow inmates, who thought he had a future on the outside as a successful musician.
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" Then came Brad Paisley, who explained what Travis meant to him: "For an early generation there's guys that wanted to be Roy Acuff, then there were guys that wanted to be Lefty [Frizzell], and then there were guys that wanted to be Merle [Haggard] and George [Jones] and Buck [Owens].
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Yes, but: "The tension is between whether or not you can uniquely explain the observations using this cocooony thing, or whether you can still explain the observation just with a jet with more complexity built into the physics," Daryl Haggard, assistant professor of physics at McGill University, told Gizmodo's Ryan Mandelbaum.
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In 19443, the same year as his anti-antiwar hit "The Fightin' Side of Me," Haggard released "A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or, My Salute to Bob Wills)," which helped Strait discover the Texas classics that became the foundation of his first live sets.
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" With a Merle Haggard-invoking lede, Norris launches into a perversely fascinating discussion of the chemtrails conspiracy theory that includes the use of Wikipedia as a source, a freewheeling misrepresentation of a Smithsonian article by esteemed science writer Sarah Zielinski, and the dismissal of Snopes as a "liberal fact-finding website.
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The spectacle of Julian Assange, bearded and haggard, resisting arrest while London police officers dragged him through the street, punctuated the end of seven confounding years inside the Ecuadorean Embassy, where he lived with his cat in a small corner room as the world's most famous self-proclaimed political refugee.
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After Keith, 54, performed a montage of Haggard's biggest hits along with Haggard's backing band the Strangers and Haggard's youngest son Ben at the ACCAs on Sunday night, he and and the 23-year-old Haggard headed out for some dinner – and proceeded to make the night of their fellow restaurant patrons.
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If you were to broaden the category a bit further, there would be the second-greatest (but most literary) songwriter of his generation Leonard Cohen; poet laureate of the poor but proud Merle Haggard; experimental wizard Tony Conrad; alternative country godfather Guy Clark; bluegrass virtuoso Ralph Stanley; and dap queen Sharon Jones.
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Fear of breaking the United States neutrality law was neatly handled yesterday by Godfrey Haggard, British Consul General in New York, when he decided to send 3,000 young American homing pigeons to ''pigeon fanciers on the other side of the Atlantic'' instead of to the Royal Air Force, for which they are intended.
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Looking back at the examples of Ted Haggard or the administration at Oral Roberts, it's easy to see how some Christians think that a certain kind of legalism will protect them from ever engaging in sinful behavior — and how, in Haggard's case, they go to wild lengths to keep from being found out.
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