Word: mop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bitter economic necessity. The hero is played by Spanish Matador Miguel Mateo, 26, known to aficionados as Miguelin, who gives the role a surly, feverish immediacy that sometimes lacks subtlety but never lacks sting. The quasi-fictional Miguelin has no dream of glory at the outset. A spunky, mop-topped Andalusian peasant, he flees the arduous life on his father's farm, drifts into that gypsy band of hot-eyed hopefuls who haunt every Spanish bull ring, courting fame with a scarlet muleta. Before a bull's horns end his short unhappy career, he attains wealth, loneliness...
...first hint of trouble. In one game last year, Chicago's Joe Horlen had a four-hit shutout going after seven innings. "Good job," said Lopez, and packed him off to the showers. He called in Gary Peters to pitch the eighth inning, then sent for Wilhelm to mop...
Today the Crimson squashes its neighbors in the field events. Tomorrow the Harvard runners mop up what's left...
...Line. Other Peanuts characters pop up from time to time. Lucy has several fuss-budget understudies: Patty, Sally, Violet and Frieda. Pig-Pen is a "human soil bank" who raises a cloud of dust on a perfectly clean street and passes out gumdrops that are invariably black. Mop-haired Schroeder is always banging out Beethoven on the piano or gazing soulfully at a bust of the master ("I picked Beethoven," says Schulz, "because he is sort of pompous and grandiose. I like Brahms better"). Lucy is in love with Schroeder, but he is too busy with Beethoven to care...
Harvard track teams have been good before, but rarely has one been as loaded as this spring's. There is talent in every event, and so much depth that coach Bill McCurdy could probably lose all his Heps champions with galloping elephantiasis and still mop up everyone on the dual-meet schedule...