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Perhaps as significantly, Princeton will have no swimmers in this event and only one in the 100-yd freestyle. Conversely, the Crimson will hope to mop up the 100, where it carries the third, fifth, sixth, eighth, and fourteenth seeds...

Author: By Mohammed Kashani-sabet, | Title: Aquamen Slip in Easterns; Disqualification Mars Day | 3/3/1984 | See Source »

Only two days before the vote, President Kenan Evren, leader of the military coup three years ago, implicitly urged support for another candidate, retired General Turgut Sunalp, whose Nationalist Democracy Party was supposed to mop up Turkey's heavy right-wing vote. Instead, Sunalp's party straggled in a poor third with 23% of the vote, behind the moderate leftist Populist Party, which scored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey: General Rebuff | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

Gaining valuable playing experience in mop-up appearances. Giella spent the year under the tutelage of then All-Ivy tackle Serge Mihaly "Serge gave so much of himself." Giella says now, "especially to the younger guys. He spent time with me, showing me the very things I use today...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Deserves credit, shuns dessert | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...They were pretty cocky at the dinner," says Kathy Carroll, the Crimson's top scoring threat. "They think there's going to come out and mop us up, I can tell you this-they've got another thing coming. We're ready...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: A Woman's Best Friend? | 2/18/1983 | See Source »

...That wasn't quite the way it worked, though The Moonies' escapades were inevitably transparent and usually laughable attempts to exhort students to take up right-wing anti-Soviet causes. On one memorable afternoon, a CARP member dressed as a Russian tank spent a good two hours chasing a mop-wigged colleague (identified as a peace-monger) around a lawn at the center of campus, in an elaborately choreographed ideological skit. On sunny days, CARPies would set up a card table with assorted Moon literature at a central campus transit point Nearby, an associate would lecture to passers by while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARP Campaign | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

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