Word: rout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strolled the quiet, trim, tree-lined yard in a sunny haze of good fellowship and sentiment. The Founder's grandson, Wilder Dwight Bancroft, famed Cornell chemist, made a speech. From a fleet of submarine chasers and launches a "White"' force of midshipmen swept up the Severn to rout "Blue" defenders in a re-enactment of the capture of Veracruz. In the afternoon Navy's football team beat University of Virginia's, 26-to-7. In the evening the Academy's superintendent, Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers, addressed by radio the entire U. S. Fleet...
...advance. Trusting in a faulty map General Albertone went too far ahead, engaged the Ethiopians alone. By the time the Italian advance was straightened out three separate battles were going on at once without coordination or contact. By 11 a. m. March i the Italians were in full rout, their dead piled high around their guns. Bugle calls for retreat were drowned amid savage cries of "EbalgumeI Ebalgume!" Behind the fanatic black warriors came their women brandishing long knives to mutilate the wounded. Killed were two of the five Generals, 4,600 Italian officers and soldiers. Two thousand were wounded...
...ever-victorious Liberal Provincial Premier Louis Taschereau, grand old French-Canadian boss. In June 1932 the Conservatives did not feel too badly when they failed to oust the Progressive Liberal Government of farmer-radical Manitoba, but since then the Conservative Generalissimo at Ottawa has known nothing but rout after sickening rout. His Liberal rival, onetime Dominion Premier William Lyon...
Sentimental. 1) All the Fascist ranting and countermarching of the past 13 years have not wiped from Italian minds the memory of two disgraces: the bloody defeat of their army in 1896 by barbarous Abyssinian tribesmen, and Italy's ignominious rout by Austrians and Germans at Caporetto in 1917. Since then Benito Mussolini has built up a war machine that on paper holds its own with the best in Europe. Abyssinia in 1935 will be a chance to test its worth. To make that test more impressive it would be a purely Fascist war. The commander in the field...
...those reasons that the President's forthcoming message on the bonus bill will be singularly significant. General comment from the Capitol suggests that Mr. Roosevelt will come out openly to rout those who suspect the sincerity of his vote. But politicians in favor of the bill will over be inclined to find some subtlety, some presidential wink in his speech as a sign that the printing presses are to be oiled up and the veto is to be overridden. The President will need all his candor to convince these Senators that his vote is sincere...