Word: mopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acres of the gold coast with malathion, a chemical that kills insects but is not deadly to humans, birds or animals. Jeeps with blowers will fog infested trees. The ground on infested property will be treated to kill the larvae as they enter the soil to pupate. Mop-up squads will catch straggling flies in traps baited with yeast...
...Holy Cross song. The musical ensemble staunchly proclaimed that it had and that the CRIMSON editors were deaf. Nothing was proven and the band played on. The yardlings rolled on behind Ticknor's field goal to defeat Dartmouth 9 to 6 and Sam L. Batchelder's three touchdowns to mop up the J.V.'s, 26 to 0. A young freshman named Clarence Douglas Dillion advanced to his first post as he was elected Freshman Football Manager...
...also outside the rectory. In Blue Island a young suburban housewife's get-acquainted coffee pour turns into a cruel social fiasco when an older woman who has posed as a friend suddenly does a commercial spiel on furniture polish in mid-party, and later presses a collapsible mop on the sobbing hostess as a payoff for the captive customers...
...conservatives, led by Arkansas' Senator John McClellan and Texas' Governor Allan Shivers, began echoing Russell's praise. They thereby focused attention on one of the most remarkable men in U.S. public life: five-term Governor Frank John Lausche (rhymes with How she), 59, who wears a mop of wildly tousled hair as though it were a banner of independence, and qualifies on the record as a superb politician, although he breaks every rule in the book-except the one for winning elections...
...Thomas B. Fitzpatrick and colleagues at the University of Oregon's Medical School report that a drug called 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP for short), used for treatment of skin blemishes as long ago as old Egypt, also increases the skin's tanning ability. When taken in small precise doses during carefully timed exposure, 8-MOP will permit users to get a tan without going through a painful burning stage. The effect of 8-MOP is not protective, Dr. Fitzpatrick warns, but speeds up the effects of the sun; large doses will produce a painful burn...