Word: mopped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mop-Up. The Hotels Statler Co., second largest hotel chain in the U.S., mopped up behind its fast extending lines. From the Pennsylvania Railroad, for an undisclosed sum, it bought Manhattan's 2,200-room Hotel Pennsylvania, which Statler has managed since it was built...
...launched its big offensive-"Operation Coronet."* The Greeks threw six divisions and other units (70,000 men) against 8,000 rebels in Communist General Markos' Mount Grammos stronghold, near the Albanian border. One aim: to bang shut Markos' backstairs supply (and escape) route to Albania. Another: to mop up Mount Grammos...
After the fight, Roughneck Rocky Graziano swaggered to his dressing room, wearing a big grin. It contrasted with the bellicose look of his tousled mop of hair and two-day growth of beard. The champ dunked his swollen hands in a hot pail of water and said: "We gettin' good, real good, ain't we? Gimme that bottle." He took a swig: "Ahhh-damn good. Lemon juice, honey and brandy. Warms up the body. I don't drink though, really I don't. Here, pass it around...
Television, always solid with sport fans, has proved that it can also score a hit with youngsters. NBC's "Howdy Doody," a lop-legged, mop-wigged puppet with a Snerdish grin, is the children's special delight...
...Only the gowns are medieval. Wigs first became fashionable in Europe in 1624, when King Louis XIII of France hid his premature baldness under a mop of false hair. For years afterward Britain's professional men continued to wear wigs that marked them as doctor, lawyer, soldier or clergyman. Today, Britain's judges and lawyers, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the clerks of Parliament and the Lord Chancellor all wear wigs on duty...