Word: mop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pietro Secchia is in charge of organization and recruiting of new members. A broad-shouldered giant with a monkish, curiously luminous face under a mop of dark hair, his brilliant false teeth glittering as he speaks, he lacks his colleagues' intellectual sparkle; but he tops them in dogged organizing genius. Secchia has himself stated his objective: "A Communist section for every church tower in Italy...
...needed now was a president. Most likely choice: Wilson McCarthy. As president, one of McCarthy's first tasks will be to smooth over relations with MOP in which Alleghany Corp.'s spectacular Robert R. Young has a big interest. Bob Young now has his hands full trying to take over the New York Central, merge it with his Chesapeake & Ohio (TIME, Feb. 3). But he has his eye on a vast transcontinental empire. If he can get MOP out of receivership-and take over control in the process-his next westward step might well be a deal with...
...Francisco, he said airily: "There's always ways of picking them up-like we're picking up the Central." As his interests in Missouri Pacific lie with the common stockholders, he is once more using his cry of "banker domination" to good effect. If & when he gets MOP, Bob Young's master plan will have gained him what Railroad Barons Fisk and Hill tried to get-a railroad system running from coast to coast...
Cardigan's catalogue said that annual tuition (including board) would be $1,100 -and be sure to bring "one dustpan, one mop, one broom." Cardigan wanted its students (sixth through ninth grade) to know that they would have to use their hands as well as their heads. There were other schools where the boys also had to make their own beds, wait on table, clean their rooms. But Cardigan's chores gave city kids a taste of the country. By last week, heading home for Christmas, Cardigan's 27 youngsters (aged eleven to 16) were old hands...
...light he looked ashen grey. His eyes were sunken, his skin flabby, his once thick mop of hair was grey, dry and scraggly. He looked his full 66 years. But his mien, as usual, was impassive...