Word: mopped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the war, bloodstained melodramas full of brutality and violence have been especially popular on the U.S. screen. Last week Britain's Board of Film Censors sternly warned Hollywood-and producers elsewhere-to mop up the gore or have offending films scissored to bits and possibly banned outright...
...time after the second round of his ten-round exhibition fight with Pat Valentino in Chicago last week, Joe Louis could have knocked his stumbling opponent out. Instead, the retired champion nursed the mop-haired San Franciscan along with blood-drawing lefts until the clock showed 2:45 of the eighth round. Then, as if on cue, he hit Valentino with a vicious left hook and a chopping right, neatly dropping his victim in front of the ringside seat of new N.B.A. Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles. Murmured Charles, who had finished Valentino in eight rounds himself last October, "Man, that...
...Mop-Up. In Methuen, Mass., the burglar who broke into Stanley Dimmock's house and stole a camera came back a week later for the flashgun attachment...
...Fiery Mop-Up. These immediate effects, the AEC pointed out, would be only the beginning. Through the wrecked or damaged buildings-littered with splintered timbers, furniture, papers and merchandise-fire would spring up and spread. Fire-fighting equipment would be trapped in demolished firehouses or hampered by rubble-choked streets. Even if it reached the fires, it would have no water to fight with: broken pipes would have reduced the pressure in the mains to near zero. The roaring flames, perhaps stirring up a "fire storm" as they did at a standard-bomb assault on Hamburg, would kill many people...
...crowd also saw three mop-haired reserve players growl at the microphone, watched Hugh Shepley '51 juggle, yelled for a speech from Duke Sedgwick's female cousin, and cheered the varsity at two rally sites--first Soldiers Field and then the Kirkland-Eliot-Winthrop triangle...