Word: mops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Following the checklist, the student porter gathers the needed implements. Mop bucket, mop. He is well aware of the danger involved in performing his function at this time of day. Playtex gloves. Some people are still sleeping. Sponge. They know him only as an early morning phantom who arrives with clinking pail on tip-toe. Broom. He recalls the morning he knocked, no answer, and entered, to find a couple obviously not expecting him, the girl screamed, the guy gurgled forth obscenities and the student porter dove into friendly porcelain territory locking the door behind him. Squeegee. And then there...
...gone through more than half a can of beer (Knickerbocker is awful), and the 400 square feet of white linoleum had been left tatooed with brew-begrimed footprints, fliptops everywhere, and the remnants of cigarette butts. We were both still real stoned, and with lights suddenly on the mops in our hands, the white room seemed clinical, even institutional. So we swabbed it with mops and a great grey steel pail, periodically cleaning the mops under the shower, or shattering the besotted silence of the entry by opening the door and heaving great bags of the detritus out onto...
...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...