Word: mop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campus of high towers and Gothic arches, interspersed here and there with the usual Victorian monstrosities. He lives in a smallish room and has a male biddy, and has to walk to the basement for his bathroom and washroom. This latter difficulty is somewhat lessened by the existence of mop basins on each floor, which Princetonians use for face-washing and other purposes...
...troops had shattered Communist forces in the Grammos region and had captured 8,000-ft. Mt. Grammos, long a formidable guerrilla stronghold. Government artillery commanded the whole northern ridge. All that remained, announced Athens, was to cut off the rebels' line of retreat to the Albanian border, and mop...
...counterattack with The Ethel Merman Show (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). The program's tenuous story line has dark, bouncy, 41-year-old Ethel Merman, ably assisted by ex-Juvenile Star Leon Janney, trying to sell a new revue to a somnolent backer-Homer Tubbs, the Syracuse floor-mop king...
After hearing mop-haired young Conductor Robert Shaw lead his Collegiate Chorale and members of the New York Philharmonic through Mennin's Fourth last week, listeners and critics were glad the composer had gone ahead. At times, the Fourth sounded as if it were about to sound like someone else; there were Stravinsky-like dissonances, used sparingly and for punctuation, in the opening of the rhythmic first movement, and there were Hindemith or Shostakovich traces in the lyric andante. But each time, and overall, the music came out strongly Mennin-energetically powerful, open and clean...
Fels Carter and John Gay each slashed through the Bowdoin saber team for three wins. Bob Westhrim snared two more points before Tom Masterson came in to mop up the last bout and complete the whitewash...