Word: roundly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the greatest of ease, both the Montreal Canadiens and, more importantly, the Boston Bruins, rolled to four straight victories in the opening round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and will now face off in the Eastern Division finals starting Tuesday...
Keller and Cetrulo survived the semifinals in their events qualifying for the twelve-man round robin finals on March...
...persuasion by the four powers." The precise extent of such "persuasion" was left carefully undefined, and Washington braced itself for the arrival of Jordan's King Hussein, due April 8 on a formal visit designed to put forth the Arab views. Hussein's visit is the latest round in the diplomatic minuet over the Middle East that brought Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban to Washington in mid-March to outline Israel's position, and had Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin shuttling back and forth almost daily last week between his embassy and the State Department...
Birds chattered and giggled overhead. A long-tailed black lizard bobbed its head in the heat. Then the first line of the 55th went in, and the lizard was suddenly gone. The bush erupted with sharp bursts of automatic fire. An incoming mortar round decapitated a palm tree and left three men writhing and mangled. The periodic silences between bursts were broken by frightened screaming birds. Wounded men straggled back. Their black faces shaded gray by shock, they handed weapons and ammunition to their replacements. There was the unmistakable whistle of a 105-mm. howitzer. "Don't worry," said...
Yesterday, the preliminary qualifying rounds were held to select the 20 fencers who would go on to the semi-finals. Today the semi-finals, a round-robin, competition, will narrow the field to twelve finalists...