Word: mop
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...break it down. But if you understand your stain and what it's made of, you can work out what will get rid of it." Take red wine. "Wine is an acid. Bicarb soda is an alkali. So when you spill red wine on the carpet, you mop up as much as you can, then sprinkle on bicarb soda. The alkali negates the acid. You'll see straight away the stain change from red to pale gray as the pH swaps over and the pigment starts to break down and the wine loses its staining ability." Lush hopes the book...
...Parks was refused service at a clothing store, a movie theater and a restaurant because he was black. He channeled his anger and frustration into his first famous photograph, made the same day. American Gothic, as he called it, is a portrait of a black cleaning woman holding a mop and a broom in front of an American flag, with her solemn expression saying worlds about the limits that she - and he - ran up against every day. Parks would always carry with him the lesson of that picture. He applied it magnificently. His photographs, his books, his movies...
...DIVA GETS STOOD UP Upon arriving in Torino, U.S. national figure-skating champ JOHNNY WEIR admitted to being "princessy" when he travels. He complained that his Olympic Village quarters were cramped and so dusty that he had to mop the floor himself. Entering the free program in second place, Weir lost focus, shuffling his elements around and finishing fifth. Turns out that two hours before skating, he had been waiting in the cold for a bus that never came. Maybe he's got a point about crummy service...
...contingent.But Harvard’s presence was negligible--a smattering of applause, barely audible above the ambient din of the club, was all the noise the Crimson could summon. Where were Blanks.’ fans?Matt T. Boch ’06, Blanks.’ lanky and mop-topped lead singer, explains that the Paradise gig was not a priority for the band. “We weren’t really pushing the show,” he says. “We were playing a fifteen-minute gig, and it?...
...grit and grime that collect in carpet. It occasionally choked on wires, tassels and other stringy things that might be lying in its path, and could easily be shown up by the vacuum cleaner you already own. Since most people don't own floor buffers or other electric mopping equipment, the Scooba isn't following a hard act. The alternative to robot floor washing is pulling out a mop or scrubbing on your hands and knees...