Word: mop
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...freak out collectively because a student threw up into a bag to signify his violent disgust for an organization that has committed torture. But we don’t have a problem puking our guts out after a night of drinking in Loker Commons, assuming some FMO janitor will mop it up. Sometimes when that happens we’re even glad to expunge the calories we consumed at John Harvard’s, worried that they’ll go to our thighs. Which type of puking is more selfish and reprehensible...
When she falls asleep at the library she worries that she will be caught: “I will promptly be expelled and all notions of my intelligence thrown out the window. I will have to move to Key West and mop floors while living in a trailer with a guy named Bubba.” Perhaps this moment is supposed to be an ironic comment on the meaningless life of the over-privileged Ivy Leaguer. But it shouldn’t be a perhaps. This girl goes to Yale, she goes shopping for fun, and she writes...
...entire staff arrives at 6 p.m. and divides up to scrub, mop, and vacuum Larsen Hall...
...like many dance students, have suffered through numerous summer dance programs in studios without air conditioning. In pre-professional summer dance classes I have seen teachers temporarily stop class to mop the puddles of sweat off the floor in order to prevent us, the dancers, from injuring ourselves through slipping. While I know that it is indeed possible, although extremely tiring, stifling, and ridiculously sweaty to take dance classes in a hot, humid room, I have never danced in or attended a single summer performance which was not air conditioned...
...based therapies may require a multidrug approach. For example, combining the modified clostridium bacterium, which attacks a tumor at its anaerobic core, with the altered measles virus, which destroys the periphery of the tumor, could be a potent new way to fight cancer. Add some radiation or chemotherapy to mop up any lingering cancer cells, and doctors could find themselves closing in on a cure...