Word: mop-up
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...week. While he was awarding regatta prizes at Varadero Beach, a band of less than 200 uniformed men attacked the army barracks in Santiago de Cuba. Local troops drove off the rebels, pursued them into the hills and captured a cache of weapons and uniforms near Siboney. As the mop-up continued, casualties mounted to 82 dead and 36 wounded; it was Latin America's bloodiest revolt since last year's uprising in Bolivia (TIME. April...
...Mop-Up. In St. Louis, after stealing a safe containing $265 from a gasoline company, the thieves phoned Owner Ernest J. Hilgert and tried to wheedle the combination from...
...primitive, war-damaged North Korean roads were clogged with other supplies, and the cold weather itself was hampering supply operations. Last month, when the weather was warm and the Chinese had not yet intervened, corps and division commanders had clamored incessantly for food and ammunition to keep the mop-up rolling. After the Chinese attack, the first call was for fighting supplies to repel the new enemy. Winter clothing shipments had taken a low priority...
...press them back, or cut behind them in an attack eastward from the Seoul enclave, along the 38th parallel, toward the Japan Sea. If he chose the latter, and if it succeeded, the rest of the fighting for South Korea-barring, as always, outside interference-would be a mop...
...most alarming event of the week was the North Koreans' rapid mop-up of the whole southwestern corner of the peninsula and most of the south coast. The U.S. left flank had been dangling somewhere near Chonju (see map); there were not enough men to extend the Allied line to the west coast, and furthermore, the U.S. left had to be pulled back as Korea's defenders retired to the build-up zone around Pusan. But the North Koreans sped the withdrawal to a dangerous pace. They simply poured around the open flank. At some points they were...