Word: mopped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians the mop-up was routine, and the prisoner problem settled. Eastern Europe's roads were already covered with German columns trudging toward Russia and an assured future of redemption through hard work...
Suddenly the fight went out of the Nazi armies in Italy. Their lines had collapsed. Allied armor, spearing through masses of bewildered Germans, spread out over northern Italy, reached toward the Swiss border near Como, cut retreat lines and started the final mop...
...Leipzig, it was a different story. Civilians, including "werewolf" boys of 14 and 15, fought with the German soldiers. The boys broke and ran when fired on by tanks; but it took the Americans 48 hours to mop up the outskirts. At week's end they were still faced by Leipzig's powerful batteries of antiaircraft guns...
...Sofia radio casually announced a piece of news: flashing-eyed, mop-maned Georgi Dimitroff, storied revolutionary, had come home at last. After 22 years of exile, the burly, brimstony Bulgarian had taken his rightful place as the No. 1 Communist in the Fatherland Front, his country's dominating political coalition...
...Then, a suitable distance behind, came another great echelon of tanks even broader, out of which groups would wheel from their brown mud tracks in green fields to encircle and smash fire at some stubborn strong point. Behind this came miles of trucks full of troops, maneuvering perfectly to mop up bypassed tough spots. Then came the field artillery to pound hard knots into submission. From the flanks sped clouds of tank destroyers cutting across the landscape in wild swoops that hit the enemy and cut off communications with bewildering speed...