Word: mop-up
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...Allied advance already had carried as much as four and a half miles into the north, central and south sectors of the El Alamein line, and mop-up detachments were fast obliterating the enemy pockets of resistance left behind by the advance guard...
...British arrested hundreds of Hurs, promptly executed 27 ringleaders. But they had done more than a mop-up job on rampaging natives. From his sand-island G.H.Q. dominating the jungle, Major General Roland Richardson authorized this statement: "The whole operation may be regarded as valuable practice for jungle warfare elsewhere, in which the British forces so far have been at a marked disadvantage...
...Mop-Up. In Indianapolis, a holdup man robbed a drugstore of $68, overlooked another $10, which burglars removed later the same night...
Associated Press Correspondent Clark Lee witnessed the subsequent bloody mop-up of the squadron's remnants, was pleasantly amazed by the cool efficiency of U.S. scouting forces, had first-hand glimpses of the Japanese fighting man in action. Reporter Lee's story...
...Mop-Up. In Salt Lake City, two weeks after somebody stole Mrs. Lorus Jackson's clean washing off her wash line, somebody stole Mrs. Lorus Jackson's washing machine...