Word: mop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...luxuriantly. The truckers are gone, and I touch her arm and tell her to look at what they have left. There is a $20 bill beside each plate. She looks up, nods, wipes her eyes on her apron, pockets the tips and goes to get a broom and a mop...
Most assume that the Star War system would have to deal with an all out Russian assault. Yes neither the Pentagon nor the Kremlin share this assumption. They know that given the present state of "nuke first ask questions later." the antimissile defense would have a mop-up role. And the prospect of taking out the United States in an area of American technological predominance makes she leaders in the Kremlin shiver...
...drafted, or the right to refuse combat duty if women may refuse. Women's agenda includes, as is long overdue, equal pay for equal work-but also includes equal pay for "comparable worth" in any job, a matter more difficult to define. Their agenda includes as well the "mop-up" of all discriminatory legislation against women and the severe patrol of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which grants women protection against any form of citizen discrimination. Where their agenda leads, no one knows-except that it is akin to the black agenda: always more and always...
...Vecchi, a little used quarterback whose only previous varsity experience came in 45 seconds of mop up action at Columbia and Dartmouth, wasted no time giving the Quakers another shot on his second pass of the day, he found Penn's All American safety Tim Chambers...
...numbers suggest, quite emphatically, that they will not. In the House, Democrats powerfully outnumber Republicans 266 to 167. And no one is predicting that Republicans can mop up the 50 seats needed to compose a working majority...