Word: mopped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first German push came to a halt. After a drive of 355 miles, any Army inevitably gets its communications tangled, has to straighten them out and bring up fresh supplies. Moreover the German attack, although led by Panzer spearheads, had to be followed by infantry to mop up and take possession. Marching at even such a rapid rate as the Nazis claimed the infantry obviously could not keep up with the tanks...
...sculptress and playwright; a tool and die maker; Axel, the brother of Bund-ster James Wheeler-Hill; 63-year-old Frederick Joubert Duquesne, writer, lecturer and shadowy figure of World War I, said by Hoover to be head of the ring and a "professional spy"; Lilly Barbara Carola Stein, mop-haired artist's model, whose tiptoe trail zigzagged from Vienna to New York, through embassies and drawing rooms. "One of the most active, extensive and vicious groups we have ever had to deal with," Mr. Hoover declared...
...find it impossible and then the news comes through that our plans have to be changed. The road to El Wak is mined and the Banda are strung in front of the fort in very large numbers and it's our job with A Company in front to mop them...
...Company forms up and. . . we're on our way. . . . What bush! Armored cars accompany us and it's still a miracle how they got through. A Company are to contact the enemy, artillery is to open up and the rest of the battalion is going to mop up the pieces. Our planes roar overhead, the heat is killing, the pace is terrific. We reach our first bound but the enemy are gone. I pass the word around: "Save your water." I rinse my mouth out and we go forward...
They ought to use their legal remedy and not the remedy of force." A squat, sloppily dressed man with a mop of uncombed hair and the face of a kindly bulldog, William Hammatt Davis, 61, is a successful Manhattan patent attorney who has long made labor relations his avocation. He has served in many a Government agency, State and national, was chairman of the New York State Board of Mediation. To him belongs credit for settlement of the Allis-Chalmers strike, which Labor Department conciliators had given up, OPM's Hillman had fumbled and OPM's Knudsen...