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Word: mops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...special police--he seemed almost proud as he watched his men pack up for their inglorious retreat. "We worked closely here in March to clean up the terrorists [K.L.A.]," he bragged. And then he explained the awful tactics of destruction: "The paramilitary would go in first, the MUP would mop, and the VJ [Yugoslav army] would stand as the rear guard of the operation." There were different orders for all commands, he said as he took a pull on a cool orange Fanta. "We all worked in synchronicity. I alone killed 500 [alleged K.L.A. soldiers]." As for the killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crimes Of War | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...Mansfield is interested in knowledge and morality, he should stop the name calling, pick up a mop and join the janitors who clean up after him at all hours of the day and night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...Mansfield is interested in knowledge and morality, he should stop the name calling, pick up a mop and join the janitors who clean up after him at all hours of the day and night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mansfield's Remarks Belittle Legitimate Concerns | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...dreaming (about spring break) as Antonio begins his morning janitorial duties as an employee of UNICCO, a private cleaning company sub-contracted by Harvard. In fact, the night owls among us are barely donning pajamas as Antonio, clad in the white and blue freshly starched UNICCO uniform, takes up mop, broom and cleaning solution...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, | Title: The Active Voice: Living with a Harvard Wage | 3/12/1999 | See Source »

Naomi Radford knew she recognized the man sitting at the next table. She couldn't place his name, but she had seen his boyish face and mop-top hair on TV, and she knew he was running for President. Now he was right beside her, talking to a reporter at a cafe in Fort Dodge, Iowa. So Radford interrupted him, and John Kasich, the 46-year-old Republican Congressman from Ohio, stopped quartering his French toast to listen to her. A widow with an eye infection, Radford, 73, told Kasich she was struggling every month to pay for her prescriptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Well Runs Dry | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

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