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...proved that this is not a building year," an animated Barnaby said after the match. "I abhor that phrase. We have a lot of work to do but we welcome the challenge. it's no fun to just mop up. The satisfying thing is to win the tough matches...
...seemed most carefree when he and Baez joined to sing such old Dylan classics as Blowin' in the Wind and I Shall Be Released. And why not? As they put their heads together in front of the mike, Joan would put her arm around Bob, mop his brow, kiss his cheek. Most important were several new songs that indicate that the creative fires may be burning brighter than in years. Sarah is the latest in a series of plaints about women. This one is especially poignant since it is addressed to Dylan's wife of ten years...
...SEXES: Help with the Mop and Broom Many husbands are now assuming their share of domestic duties, greatly easing the burden for 34.5 million women who choose to remain in the home. Some innovative families have even formalized housework and child-care arrangements into "marriage contracts." Paternity leaves (unpaid leaves of absence granted by the New York City Board of Education, the University of Michigan and other employers) now mean that some wives no longer have the sole responsibility for the care of their newborn babies. At the same time, an Internal Revenue Service ruling that permits parents to deduct...
...with just one out in the seventh. Coach Loyal Park then sent Nils Nilsen out to retire the final two in the seventh and Terry Schlimbaum to start the eighth. Schlimbaum was rocked for Yale's final three runs before retiring a batter, so Frank LeBlanc came in to mop...
...story reveals, Marshfield is a stock character from Updike's central casting. He snorts at liberal Protestantism and pumps for devotion inspired by awe and terror ("Mop up spilt religion! Let us have it in its original stony jars or not at all!"). At the same time he pushes graphic, adulterous sex as suburbia's best anodyne; coupling is sweetest with the ashen taste of sin. He sees women chiefly as attractive hurdles in the heavenly sweepstakes, where all the runners are male...