Word: mop-up
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Estimates of the death toll ran from 75 to 200; the dead included two navy captains and the commandant of the maritime police. The army colonel in charge of mop-up operations was wounded. Three rebel navy officers, 13 enlisted men and three maritime police were captured and flown to Havana to face a rough round of questioning on how the revolt got started. Batista's troops began a house-to-house search for a reported 2,000 guns distributed to civilians from the arsenal...
...acres of the gold coast with malathion, a chemical that kills insects but is not deadly to humans, birds or animals. Jeeps with blowers will fog infested trees. The ground on infested property will be treated to kill the larvae as they enter the soil to pupate. Mop-up squads will catch straggling flies in traps baited with yeast...
...ragged foot soldiers once made their own decimating retreat from Moscow. Having lived on half rations for nearly a year, the shaky, shaggy marchers had more to fear than hunger or freezing. Their long, anonymous column made a tempting target for Allied air power, beginning the final sky mop-up in Europe...
...showing, with the blast of bombs on Government House, that Perón was not above challenge, the rebels cut his prestige to a doubtful quantity at the beginning of the week. Already the church had excommunicated him, and he found it prudent to turn the post-revolt mop-up entirely over to Army Minister General Franklin Lucero. In some offices government employees discreetly took down his portrait from the wall. Ominously, the official evening newscast failed to start at 8:25 p.m. with the requisite explanatory phrase that it was "the moment [one night three years ago] when...
...know it. Nichols became fascinated in the subject, and his interest led to previously secret files, to military bases, to scores of interviews. His book, Breakthrough on the Color Front (Random House; $3.50), published this week, is the most complete report to date on a war already in the mop-up stage...