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Word: mops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gaining valuable playing experience in mop-up appearances. Giella spent the year under the tutelage of then All-Ivy tackle Serge Mihaly "Serge gave so much of himself." Giella says now, "especially to the younger guys. He spent time with me, showing me the very things I use today...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Deserves credit, shuns dessert | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...They were pretty cocky at the dinner," says Kathy Carroll, the Crimson's top scoring threat. "They think there's going to come out and mop us up, I can tell you this-they've got another thing coming. We're ready...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: A Woman's Best Friend? | 2/18/1983 | See Source »

...That wasn't quite the way it worked, though The Moonies' escapades were inevitably transparent and usually laughable attempts to exhort students to take up right-wing anti-Soviet causes. On one memorable afternoon, a CARP member dressed as a Russian tank spent a good two hours chasing a mop-wigged colleague (identified as a peace-monger) around a lawn at the center of campus, in an elaborately choreographed ideological skit. On sunny days, CARPies would set up a card table with assorted Moon literature at a central campus transit point Nearby, an associate would lecture to passers by while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARP Campaign | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

...blue-suited SWAT team rushes sporadically through cell blocks, sometimes after midnight, to shake down prisoners for weapons. More than 100 assorted shivs and shanks (rodlike weapons often shaped from mop-bucket handles), as well as revolvers, have been seized. A sniper in one of the guard towers has shoot-to-kill orders. A trailer van bulging with shotguns, tear gas and riot gear waits outside the prison walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hellhouse Becomes a Madhouse: New Mexico State Penetentiary | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...Guards yelled "I'm the judge and the executioner too" as he fired into a prisoner's temple. A man I was talking to in our cell was suddenly separated from me and shot through the head by an Islamic Guard. I was given a mop and a bucket and ordered to "clean up the mess." "Your turn is coming," the Guard told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside a Khomeini Prison | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

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