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...fiend who gave her new mop a crew haircut...
...Schlieben to surrender himself, leaving his men to fight, many of them to die. Schlieben persisted: his experience in Russia had taught him the value of delaying tactics by small, holdout groups. Joe Collins set his long jaw, dismissed them. They were driven away, past grinning M.P.s. The mop-up went...
...last centers of strong resistance were around the city post office, a naval arsenal, the seaplane base. Attacking troops, weary, grimy but intent on the kill, surrounded them and drove in for the final mop-up. As they closed the battle for Cherbourg engineers were moving in behind to help reopen the great Atlantic port to sea traffic...
...Heifetz of the guitar is a stooped, bespectacled, mop-haired Spaniard named Andrés Segovia, who has, almost singlehanded, raised the guitar to the status of a concert instrument. A graduate of Spain's Granada Musical Institute, Segovia plays intricate Bach fugues and Handel gavottes with an agility and subtlety that has astounded critics. Segovia never deigns to play flamenco music...
Three days after the Kwajalein Island assault, the Army's 7th Division had driven the enemy into the northern corner. For the final mop-up, TIME Correspondent William Chickering joined a tank crew, radioed this tank's-eye-view account...