Word: mopped
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...Maybe this doesn't matter. Nobody goes to hear an action movie. Everybody wants to see Li in action. So watch him defeat bad guys with the tools of domesticity: a mop, a bale of laundry and (ouch) an iron. Gasp as he kicks a billiard ball out of an end pocket, then swats it, cricket-bat-style, into a villain's cranium. See him use a desk drawer as a truncheon. He sneaks past a sentry's guardhouse outside the evil inspecteur's police station and, just to show he can, he rams his foot through his guardhouse door...
...DOWNTOWN BRIDGE A maintenance man takes advantage of the lull to mop the tile floor in the narrow walkway that funnels pedestrians from Mexico into downtown Laredo. Customs supervisor Greg Salinas expects the traffic to pick up in a few hours, when the borrachos come over, the drunks and Friday-night revelers who have been enjoying the Nuevo Laredo night life, some even venturing to Boystown, the red-light district, where prostitutes have held court for generations of Texas fraternity boys, roughnecks and cowboys. The revelers will buy tequila and six-packs of Corona at half the U.S. price...
...were 13 cases of searches and arrests of journalists by regional cops," says Oleg Panfilov, whose Moscow-based Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations monitors pressure on the Russian media. "In the first four months of this year there have been 15 such cases. [President Vladimir] Putin wants to mop up the entire information field [and] has sent the local political bosses a clear sign that they can beat their media into shape...
...sure does load their thoroughbred down. So many Bud Lights. So many Aztecs. So many commercials, and so many empty montages. Tune in next week for "Back From the Outback," to mop up what CBS can of May sweeps...
...first at-bat and went 0-for-1 before being lifted at the end of the fifth…Schneider’s single in the sixth inning was the first hit of his collegiate career…Sophomore Brendan Reed pitched two solid innings of scoreless relief in mop-up duty for Harvard. Reed has a 0.00 ERA in 12.2 innings so far this year...