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Word: mop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other. It may be as important, but it won't be as difficult, and the prediction here is while the rest of the Ivy League is standing toe-to-toe slugging it out on Opening Day. Harvard will kayo its featured opponent early, with the sophomores around to mop it up in the fourth quarter. Quarterback Cuccia has never lost a game in his life starting at that position, and the streak won't be in danger this week. HARVARD 35, COLUMBIA...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Visiting a Friendly Den | 9/18/1981 | See Source »

...long while has so much knowledge led to so much power as it has with David Stockman, head of the Office of Management and Budget. The man with the mod-cut mop of hair, engaging smile and soft voice may be the greatest human repository of information on the U.S. Government now in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Knowledge Is Power | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...though it took a while. Before 10,000 fans at Kooyong Stadium, McEnroe was leading Borg 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 in the five-set match when rain interrupted play. After the showers stopped, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser led a group of volunteers armed with towels to mop up the moisture. Play resumed, and McEnroe won the fourth set 6-4 to give him the match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bjorn and John Show | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...relic of "gentlemanly" fun has survived, or why. Whatever the topical theme of each show, the jokes always return to that most undergraduate of comical subjects, sex--and the humor is not always only verbal. Would the Pudding audiences find it less funny to see an actress fondle a mop-end than an actor in drag? When the audience guffaws as the kick-line picks up its skirts to reveal red garters and yellow panties, what is it laughing at--the drag? More often, the semi-sloshed, thigh-slapping enjoyment at the Pudding Show seems almost prurient--as though...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

...basement storage room that was furnished with only a mattress. Says Metrinko: "When I was awake, I'd lean it against the wall because you couldn't move around with it on the floor." He spent four months there, volunteering to scrub toilets, mop floors, "do anything that got me out of that hole." He spent many of the hours reading, including The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's grim portrait of Soviet prison life. Says Metrinko dryly: "I can't imagine a better place to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Back in Anger | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

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