Word: mop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There's a lot of insanity in loneliness," he confides. "I've got to get sane again. If you mop your wounds, it takes away from the depth of your playing." His music finds a far more receptive audience today than it did five years ago. In fact, the quiet revolution growing within the jazz world points directly down the path blazed by Ornette Coleman. "I think," he says, "I can see some sunlight coming...
...Kharkov), in July 1943, as "Hitler's last chance to turn the tide," and thus as important as Stalingrad the previous year. Werth is at his best in eyewitness accounts of Leningrad or of his tour (in -40° C. weather) through the Stalingrad area just after the mop-up there. The item about Russian children using the stiffly frozen body of a German soldier as a sled makes a one-sentence summary of the horror...
...well enough to the Spartan regime that begins at 6:45 a.m. with a brisk run on a gravel road followed by hot and cold showers. Though neither an outstanding student nor athlete, he mixes well, and his public image is that of a healthy boy with a mop of hair that defies comb and brush. When it was suggested that he has a Beatle's haircut, His Royal Highness Charles Philip Arthur George, heir apparent to the British throne, grinned and said, "You mean the Beatles have a Prince Charles...
Vacationing in Jamaica's Montego Bay last week, Barry Goldwater and his top lieutenants engaged in what G.O.P. National Chairman Dean Burch described as "mopping-up operations." Many Republicans were wondering, however, just what was left to mop...
...loss to Princeton indicated; they proved that by beating Brown last weekend. They have depth (Bob Blackman is the only coach in the league to use three platoons). They get the tough part of their season over with early. If they can beat either Harvard or Yale, and then mop up the weaker teams on the way home, the Indians are going to be in the middle of the title race...