Word: mops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mingle with lunch-hour throngs, or wander through the halls affecting that where-is-the-personnel-department look, until he finds what he is really after. Thieves masquerade as job seekers, repairmen, delivery boys, messengers. And some manage to clean up simply by walking around with a mop...
...Kennedy, he is primarily interested in actually passing bills, and less in the proper ways. His judgements are concise, devoid of rationalization and pussy-footing: "I just did not go along with Clark on the rules fight." The bills Ribicoff has introduced are not radical, but are simply mop-ups on his work in HEW. He hasn't introduced anything specifically to help Connecticut, although he considers the recently passed Mass Transit Bill to be an answer to his campaign promise to help the Fairfield County commuters. On the Finance Committee, he considers himself a representative of New England...
...fire was finally brought under control at 10:30 p.m., and mop-up operations will continue today...
...saws of critics with equal impunity. Apart from being a cross-country box-office sellout, it is already accentuating a curious trend in haircuts. Hip barbers are clipping the tykes of unwary parents in an Oliver-styled fashion known as the "British boy cut" (low bangs in front, thick mop in back), and many a little boy will soon look rather like a wistful needle in a haystack...
...there is another kind of Christmas trauma that results in what might be called Santa Claustrophobia. Many a mop pet chickens out of the department store line to see Santa-the big red man with the vast white beard seems like God him self and not every adult would be in a hurry to climb onto His lap. One Victoria, B.C., housewife organized a protest when a store had Santa Claus arriving in a helicopter, only to be followed three days later by a rival store's Santa landing by parachute. Confused her children hopelessly she said, and made...