Word: mop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work force. For example, the post-baby boom shortage of McDonald's traditional workers, suburban teens, has prompted the company to recruit older workers through a program called McMasters. Roughly 10% of McDonald's workers are over 50, and 5% are over 60. At 83, Anne LaFave wields a mop as a cleaning worker at a ( Chicago outlet, a job she has held for seven years. Says she: "I have a whole new family, all the kids in the store. I'm happy to stay busy...
...Soviet missile force in a surprise attack, SDI becomes more and more sensible--and more and more insidious. Star Wars is not primarily intended to shield the United States from a Soviet first strike. This, according to most experts, is an impossible task. Rather, its purpose would be to mop up the small percentage of Soviet missiles that would escape a U.S. first strike...
Then finally the door is locked, and we speed up a notch to clean up. Legs out in a Chuck Berry Duck Walk, I hop around singing into my mop while the manager rushes about waving correction slips and time cards. Then we're in the service area, cranking out the final tasks. Both choosing the same moment to drag out an ice cream tub, we collide. Eyes bugging, faces centimeters apart, we break into a primal scream duet. Nancy joins us, and we all scream again, faces flushed, drowning out the music, and then finally collapsing into exhausted laughter...
...trimmer than Democrats, insists Milt, but Democrats have to be careful that they are up to the minute with their more casual style. Thus when he saw the picture of Hart in New Hampshire sporting a hairstyle that seemed 20 years old, his fingers itched to attack the mop. "How come you don't see any bald men among the top candidates?" asks the hair stylist. Good point. Baldie Ike made his mark in the military and then defeated Baldies Taft and Stevenson on his way to the White House. End of the baldie run.The barber almost saved Gerald Ford...
...mop up the vomit...