He wears a faded baseball cap, a scraggly beard and a look of resignation.

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After overseeding, the summer turf is slower to grow back in and may stay scraggly into midsummer.

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She also does Derian's signature scraggly geraniums (exclusively for him), which have become a hit in the store.

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But if China takes it the wrong way, the stakes will become higher than fish and a few scraggly goats.

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At the working-class picnic on a river bank in France everyone is porcine and unlovely, the light is dreary, the grass is scraggly.

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He suggested a Hairy Mary, a scraggly black fly.

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It simply sits there in undistinguished anonymity on a low rise beneath a few scraggly trees, several miles from the nearest highway, almost invisible from the sun-baked ruts of a nearby secondary road.

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You couldn't ask for a more alarming declaration of noble intent than the authentically scraggly black beard Leonardo DiCaprio sports as Roger Ferris, CIA point man in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Dubai and other spots in the Levant.

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Previous years have seen Cirque du Soleil-style acrobats hanging from the rafters of the library's basement, a 12-piece orchestra playing songs popular during Prohibition and five old-school barbers in a pop-up grooming shop to freshen up any scraggly-bearded gentlemen, gratis, on the spot.

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