Word: mop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yesterday's raid is "only the beginning," according to Crime Prevention director Thomas J. Stokes of the Cambridge police. Although Harvard Square is one of the cleanest trading centers in Cambridge, Captain Stokes announced yesterday that his squad is out to mop up those bookies who still make a living here from students and other local betters...
...Deacon" Anderson, 26, had worked out a kind of K.P. chantey as he swung his mop. As he explains now: "It's hard to think up words with any sense when you're tired, and I got to spelling...
...mop, m-o-p-p, mop...
Part-Cherokee, part-Irish Johnnie Lee Wills recorded it (for Bullet Records), and last week just about everybody in the U.S. seemed to be going through the alphabet. Rag Mop was at the top of the hit parade...
Without spending a cent of its own money (it had only $10,000), Junto in effect bought 4,028 houses worth some $32 million in Levittown, the Long Island mass housing development of Levitt & Sons. This complex deal in high finance was devised by bustling, mop-haired Philip Klein, a retired advertising man now Junto's non-salaried business manager. He had no trouble selling the deal to Builder William Levitt, who saw in it a way to save on his taxes...