Word: mop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most original campaign of the election was run by Jane Conner, of Belmont, chosen president of the Class of 1951, who was represented at the Student Government candidates' tea, scheduled during her laboratory hours, by an effigy made from a mop. Other officers elected last week are Cynthia Williams of Baltimore, vice-president; Martiyn Marvill of Falmouth, secretary; and Lealie Guy of Binghamton, N. Y., treasurer...
Russia had placed an iron mop in the hands of Ana Pauker, its No. 1 Rumanian Communist, and Ana was busy mopping up. A fortnight ago, the leaders of the liberal National Peasant Party had been arrested (TIME, July 28). Aging (74) ex-Premier Juliu Maniu was in Malmaison Prison. Jon Mihalache had been moved to the cellar of the Ministry of Interior. Last week a rubber-stamp parliament outlawed the National Peasant Party, Rumania's majority party (70% of voters...
...hour's torrential rain which ripped through Cambridge yesterday afternoon between 3:30 and 4:30 o'clock had the University maintenance men hustling, but quick action with the mop, pall, and pump kept damage from backed-up drains and flooded cellars to a minimum...
...Whenever the Nationalist Army comes to mop up a place of Communists, it is the Fire Society that points out to the troops which village is a bandit [Communist] hideout ... or who is a bandit and should be killed. In other words, a single word from the Fire Society can turn a whole village to ashes or deprive a peasant of his life...
Name or Talent? To San Franciscans in their huge granite Opera House, as to most audiences, Rubinstein is a small, lumpy figure with a classic brow and a frizzy Harpo Marx-like mop, spotlighted on a distant stage. The impenetrable dignity Pianist Rubinstein manages to assume on stage conceals a talent for mimicry, a love of partying, and a quick-tongued...