Word: mops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heifetz of the guitar is a stooped, bespectacled, mop-haired Spaniard named Andrés Segovia, who has, almost singlehanded, raised the guitar to the status of a concert instrument. A graduate of Spain's Granada Musical Institute, Segovia plays intricate Bach fugues and Handel gavottes with an agility and subtlety that has astounded critics. Segovia never deigns to play flamenco music...
Three days after the Kwajalein Island assault, the Army's 7th Division had driven the enemy into the northern corner. For the final mop-up, TIME Correspondent William Chickering joined a tank crew, radioed this tank's-eye-view account...
...Navy "relaxees," also a new uniform. Bell bottomed, one-striped cuffs, and those inevitable 13 buttons. Plus this, a slight stay at Portsmouth or some other rest resort and then... a lovely 1943 model long handled mop, a bucket of water, a broad expanse of deck and thou beside if on the bounding main, resting between swabs. Of course, if you'd rather not relax, you can always...
...girls are reputed to be wizards with the broom and mop and guarantee to make any Navy household shipshape. Unfortunately, however, the service is thus far limited to Navy wives...
...member of Congress, who really worries about what happens to public funds, went farther, much farther, to find out. Last January, factory managers throughout the East and Midwest began to get visits from a mop-haired, jug-shaped man who began: "My name is Engel. I am a member of Congress representing the 9th District of Michigan. I am here to have you educate me so I can do a better job in spending your money. I have a right to ask, and shall expect your fullest cooperation. I want facts, just facts...