Word: mop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just as patients rarely communicate, the nurses never talk to you either. They seemed nice but never had time for the patients except to occasionally hand out a cigarette or say "mop the floor." And the doctors were so distant they might have been another species. They strode through the ward on long rubbery legs at ninety miles an hour and the only thing they seemed to have to do with the ward was to use it as a path from where they had been to where they were going. Once a doctor slowed down to thirty as he passed...
EDITOR IN CHIEF has speed to go wire to wire and drops in class to capture the purse, MOP TOP has beaten good fillies, TOMMY'S PET tries to win three...
...cleaning woman now that I've given you all this information? This hall is the one hall that is painted, we fuss so. I called the agent and told him, if I'm going to wash the halls at 2University Road would e mind providing the mop? He said, what? I said the student next door to me will help, I can't stand to see Mrs. Wetzel mopping, she's over 70...since then the hall has been washed once a week...
Vonnegut owns a two-story, clapboard-and-shingle house in Barnstable, Mass., shared with his wife Jane (a Swarthmore Phi Beta Kappa), their own three children and three adopted children, plus a mongrel named Sandy, also known as "the Barnstable Dust Mop." Most of his writing is done at home in morning spurts. Afternoons he is free to paint or contemplate a sign he has on the wall which reads "GOD DAMN IT YOU GOT TO BE KIND...
...hour period last week, 31 U.S. fighting men died in Viet Nam. Among them were 16 Marines helping to mop up a trapped enemy unit below Danang and one infantryman in a patrol that was ambushed 40 miles north of Saigon. One of the 31, impossible to single out, became the 30,000th American to be killed in action in Viet Nam since the grisly log was begun on Jan. 1, 1961. Almost half of the total (14,400) died this year, many in the three major offensives launched by the Communists since the Tet holiday...