Word: mop-up
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...Kharkov), in July 1943, as "Hitler's last chance to turn the tide," and thus as important as Stalingrad the previous year. Werth is at his best in eyewitness accounts of Leningrad or of his tour (in -40° C. weather) through the Stalingrad area just after the mop-up there. The item about Russian children using the stiffly frozen body of a German soldier as a sled makes a one-sentence summary of the horror...
...decision to Kent Nelson for the Crimson's only other defeat. Clive Kileff at number three, Chum Steele, number four, and Bob Inman, number six, turned in quick straight-set victories. Inman, playing in his last match, turned in the day's quickest win, a 6-2, 6-1 mop-up job over Bob Dunlop...
...fire was finally brought under control at 10:30 p.m., and mop-up operations will continue today...
When Rebel Fidel Castro's men called the strike, it turned out to be a classic of disorganization. Batista easily quelled it with units of the crack, 7,000-man National Police alone, and the cops went on to a brutal and exemplary mop-up. The effect was to cripple, perhaps for a long time, the general-strike psychology-the emotional willingness of soft-hooded amateurs to go up against the hardhanded professionals...
...with a knight, and muttered: "Now he's busted." But Bobby knew better. Later he said: "Byrne was playing pretty good, and then I gave him a hit in the head." It was a blow from which Byrne could not recover. After the 27th move, Bobby's mop-up of his opponent's shattered forces was routine...