Word: cleanup
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rightfielder answered to Arturo. A guy named Doc was behind the plate. The cleanup batter called himself Hector, and his claim to fame was that he once led the league in grounding into double plays. The whole squad was hitting .212. The program said they were the New York Yankees, winners of five straight American League pennants and 2-1 favorites to make it six in a row. Baltimore Coach Billy Hunter knew better; after all, he used to play shortstop for New York. "Yankees?" snorted Hunter. "They look like the Toledo Mud Hens...
...This experiment proved that a full cleanup would be time-consuming, expensive, and not entirely effective. We are continuing to attack the problem as best we can, but is a most difficult one. Decisions have not been made, pending further investigation," the commissioner said...
Frei knew he could not expect to pass his entire program, so he pushed "urgently" for three measures to get things started. He wanted higher taxes on personal property, legislation to support the cleanup of slums in municipalities around the country, additional presidential powers that would help him govern. Congress has answered no to all three items...
...first PIA flight, described the New China as "a land of spacious loveliness cultivated down to the last inch, crisscrossed with power lines." To tourists, the most vivid first impression is cleanliness-the result of a Communist Party drive to shame, cajole and organize the people into cleanup squads that left everything shining...
...biggest cleanup operations in the world is run by Daniel Fraad Jr., 52, a onetime Brown University foot ball standout and Columbia University anatomy instructor. He heads a company called Allied Maintenance, which, among other activities, sweeps and cleans offices, stores, auditoriums, air line terminals, ballparks. The 16,000 people who work for Fraad's publicly owned Allied do everything from tidying up Houston's Humble building to taking atomic waste away from the Yankee Electric plant at Rowe, Mass. "Minding other people's business" is the company's slogan, and in the fiscal year just...