Word: mop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Council, the Soviet Union has long been one of the U.N.'s pickier dues payers. Moscow has consistently refused to ante up for special operations that it opposed politically, starting with a peacekeeping force at the Suez Canal in 1956. But last week the Soviets announced that they will mop up their red ink, paying a total of $197 million in outstanding debts owed for peacekeeping operations in the Middle East dating back to 1975. Moscow's check will erase its current IOUs, but not its historical ones. In 1973 the U.N. ceased billing the Soviets for some $67 million...
...middle of the fourth quarter, Restic cleared his bench, sending in substitutes to mop up the rout...
What you see is a compact-model candidate, 5 ft. 8 in. tall, with a mop of dark brown hair just beginning to gray at the temples, caterpillar-thick eyebrows and an aggressive Grecian nose tempered by a soft, almost shy smile. But in the Democratic presidential race Dukakis is as hot as a Friday-night traffic jam heading for Cape Cod. Ever since he unveiled his long-shot candidacy in March, Dukakis has been running like a modern-day Hermes in wing- tip shoes. He inherited most of Gary Hart's Iowa organization, raised a record $4.2 million...
...that takes care of the outside ceremonies. Before the 3000 alumni and families arrived, their 2500 Yard, River, and Quad "hotel" rooms had to be prepared. The spring cleaning required the services of more than 350 students. The dorm crew workers used hundreds of mop heads, more than 1000 plastic bags, and over 100 gallons of degreaser, says Alan C. Edwards, supervisor of custodial services in the College area...
...took an editorial mop to the mess, scrubbing with strokes so rigorous that they laid tire tracks of emotional trauma across the metaphysical entity that served as a literary cipher for my soul...