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...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...
...Mont Louis had been carrying, among other items, arms for the Soviet Union, an allegation that was curtly dismissed by the Belgian government. By week's end 13 of the containers of uranium were aboard a salvage barge, and crews from Belgium and England were able to mop up a three-mile-long fuel-oil slick...
...name of Dr. Rock and has the good sense to go off-mike when the major talent is in the room. In only a little more time than it might take to recite the immortal refrain from Tutti Frutti (for the record, that's "Awop-Bop-a-Loo-Mop/ Alop-Bam-Boom"), the reader, reeling, will have plunged through Richard's accounts of childhood pranks (he defecated in a box and presented the result, gift wrapped, to old Miz Ola down on Macon's Monroe Street) and sexual initiation, which seems to have taken place about...
...operate on its own, abandoning New Hampshire two days before the vote to stump in neighboring primary states. As Mondale aides later acknowledged, the early exit was a blunder. It gave the impression that the front runner was so sure of success that he could let his minions mop up while he moved on to the next event. Hart, meanwhile, was shaking every New Hampshire hand in sight. On Monday he drew such a huge entourage of television crews on Elm Street, the main drag of Manchester, that pedestrians were forced to cross the street to avoid the crush. Earlier...