Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians, the remainder of the Ukrainian campaign was a cleanup operation, but it had to be cleaned up in a hurry. The Germans obviously intended to slow them up as much as possible-for time to the Germans means opportunity to anchor a new front in Rumania...
...Review also proposed a careful cleanup of the ruins, some necessary rearrangement, some landscaping. The blitzed churches would then be used as places of open-air worship, meditation, rest...
...shock is seldom severe in head wounds"), which makes it impossible to move a patient at once; 2) need for immediate surgery to relieve pressure on the brain; 3) no possibility of reaching a base hospital in 72 hours. For such cases he recommends "an operation of expedience"-a cleanup after which the wound is left wide-open, protected only by a plaster-of-paris bandage. A diagram of the wound may be drawn on the bandage to guide the base-hospital surgeon who completes the operation...
...disruption of occupation routine, Allied authorities were thankful when he thereafter remained indoors. They announced the dismissal of "several hundred" Fascist officials in Naples, otherwise forwarded the scrubbing of Italy's Fascist face. But the consensus in Naples at week's end was that the cleanup, at least for the duration, would probably not extend to Vittorio Emanuele...
Then a change came o'er the spirit of his dream, and made itself felt in his speeches. From confidently predicting Axis victory he fell to talking gloomily of a six-or seven-year war to the death, then (last May) to calling for peace. The invasion and cleanup of Africa gave Spain a close and eye-popping demonstration of Allied power. On Oct. 1, speaking before the Falange, he omitted the ringing Spanish phrase for "nonbelligerency," used in its place a calm, almost Swiss formula: "vigilant neutrality...