Word: mop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, Rocky tries to dress the part. His idea of what the well-dressed man should wear is a dirty polo shirt; he buys a new zoot suit every month, lets a pal break it in, seldom sees it again. His dislike of barbers keeps a mop of black hair flopping over his eyes...
...Mop the charlady repeatedly interrupts Handley to ask: "Can I do you now?" During the bombings, people crushed under the rubble sometimes called to rescue diggers...
...Chicago Daily News, slowly building a powerhouse foreign staff (Raymond Swing, later Negley Farson, John Gunther), was getting more interested in Europe. Paul pulled his mop-haired, earnest younger brother Edgar out of the Latin Quarter, where Edgar was composing critical essays on French dramatists, sent him off to the front as a correspondent. Edgar occasionally annoyed the home office by leading a battle story with an apt piece of Latin verse, but he did increasingly well...
Hogs Are Lucky. For Emperor Young, the vision of a transcontinental line was more than just a dream. Through the Alleghany Corp., he has a large block of Missouri Pacific bonds. If he could get the MOP, he would have a line west to Denver-and through MOP's half-control of the Denver & Rio Grande Western, all the way to Salt Lake City. From Salt Lake City to San Francisco runs the Western Pacific, the small but spunky rival of the Southern Pacific (which owns the other half of D. & R. G. W.); Arthur Curtiss James...
...Lull. When the Japanese made a move to throw in the towel, U.S. land forces were engaged in no major operations. In northeast Luzon, the 38th ("Cyclone") Division was raising the dust with its mop-up of trapped Japs, taking casualties as' well as inflicting them. In the Marianas, three companies of marines waged miniature amphibious war, seized five islets north of Saipan, lost...