Word: mop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese still had to mop up. In Sumatra, and other outlying Indies islands, they might have to wage a long and tough guerrilla campaign against unsubjected Dutchmen and hardy natives. But for all the purposes of war and conquest, the Japanese had Java. They had the Indies, their oil and rubber and tin, their "strategic island wall across the southwest Pacific. They had still to fight the battle of India and the battle of Australia. But they had won the battle of the Pacific...
Associated Press Correspondent Clark Lee witnessed the subsequent bloody mop-up of the squadron's remnants, was pleasantly amazed by the cool efficiency of U.S. scouting forces, had first-hand glimpses of the Japanese fighting man in action. Reporter Lee's story...
Uninfluenced by other U.S. artists, indifferent to both money and publicity, shy, mop-headed Bloom has seldom sold a picture, never had an exhibition. But critics last week, gawping over his cloisonné-colored rabbis and gaudy transmogrified chandeliers, were willing to rate him as one of the most striking of U.S. colorists...
Sharpest summation of Britain's mixed emotion over the war's new turn appeared in Punch. In an imaginary dialogue (presumably written before the Japanese attack) mop-headed M.P.-Humorist Alan Patrick Herbert somewhat sourly discussed a mythical All-Aid-to-America Association...
Village is a study in faces-native Mexican mountain faces: strong-nosed, squash-nosed, distrustful, lucent and, except for the children, lined by labor. Its actors (all natives) are natural and astonishingly good, especially a mop-haired little boy (Paco), who dies of dysentery, and his older brother (Juan Diego), who makes the long hike to the city to return with the "horse-blood men"-Mexico's rural medicos and their vaccine...