Word: mop-up
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...blowup, but that "the swirling waters of the milewide, swamp-bordered river might have temporarily slowed the German advance." For the Russians it was a week of drainage. On boats, barges, tree trunks, rafts of boughs and oil drums, soldiers made their hasty way across the Dnieper. In their mop-up the Germans claimed 300,000 prisoners, actually took about half that many. Marshal Semion Budenny had had about 700,000 men to begin with, had suffered about 150,000 casualties-and so he extricated perhaps as many as 400,000. These were, however, disorganized by their losses...
...train of British armored cars, tanks and infantry trucks one day last week. It wriggled onto the coast road, penetrating still farther into the African empire of Benito Mussolini. From the desert to the south another spearhead, fresh Anzac and Moslem Indian troops, poked north and west. Before mop-up units in Bardia had finished prying the last pockets of Italian Terribili from their wadi hideouts, the two points were encircling Tobruch...
...mop-up work it does a grand job. For in-fighting in riots its shot cartridges are murderous-at 25 yards they hurl birdshot into a circular pattern six feet in diameter...
...Politics! Dirty politics!" cried the Democratic politicians of Manhattan when 18 liquorous Manhattan night clubs were Federally raided at the very moment Governor Smith of New York was being nominated for the Presidency (TIME, July 9). The raids continued, prosecutions began and the fact came out that the Manhattan mop-up had been personally planned by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U. S. Assistant Attorney General. Much of able Mrs. Willebrandt's energy has been exerted this year towards getting Mr. Hoover nominated and elected. "Politics! Dirty politics!" was a convincing...