Word: mop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan last week, a U.S. audience found first-hand that the news about France's best male dancer was not exaggerated. For his first guest appearance with Ballet Theater, mop-haired little (5 ft. 5 in.) Dancer Babilée, 27, chose the ballet which first brought him fame, Le Jeune Homme. His role: that of a young artist who is abandoned by his sweetheart. In the violent, Apache-like dances that the ballet calls for, he revolved around his taunting sweetheart (beautifully danced by pert Nathalie Philippart, his wife) with the intensity of an angry bird. His tremendous...
...production centers: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. It had also finally brought under one roof five competing performer unions: Actors' Equity, Chorus Equity, American Federation of Radio Artists, American Guild of Musical Artists, American Guild of Variety Artists.† Soon, Heller and TvA expect to mop up the eighty-odd local TV stations scattered across the U.S. Says Heller: "We're a powerful group, there's no question of that...
There was no bypassing the enemy. A unit would push into an area, then consolidate and mop up before moving on. But, despite the slower pace, Ridgway encouraged greater mobility. He ordered his G-4 section to strip down its cumbersome supply system. Eighth Army's infantry began to hear the old paratrooper slogan: "Throw away the extra weight...
...only American to part with "so many hours and so much money" in Bricktop's. From 1924 to 1939, until war drove her home to the U.S. for a while, Bricktop (real name: Ada Smith du Congé), a West Virginia-born Negro woman with a mop of rusty orange hair, played hostess to a whole generation of footloose Americans in her Montmartre nightclub...
...which attack the destructive Oriental fruit moth) and exposes each generation of them to DDT not quite strong enough to wipe them out. The survivors, says Dr. Pielou, grow progressively tougher. Eventually, he hopes, they will be able to ignore DDT. Then they will be released in orchards to mop up the fruit moths that have survived...