Word: rout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obtain our cooperation in preventing her imminent rout as the master of Europe it appears that Great Britain must effect a settlement of her huge unpaid balance on the War debt since this unpaid debt apparently makes the Johnson Act applicable...
...exercises ended, as all maneuvers do, in a heartening rout of the invaders. But there were some "nervous" moments. The Army was temporarily cut in two at the Ticino River when Red bombers "destroyed" a strategically important bridge. Toiling engineers threw a temporary bridge across the Ticino in 16 hours-"a fine page in their glorious tradition," crowed Virginio Gayda's Giornale d'ltalia. New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews sourly commented that it was "evidently a very solid and complicated bridge," for he had seen Spanish Loyalists in a fraction of that time build structures strong...
...German Army, which had already retreated 100 miles, with a loss by capture of 390,000 men and 6,600 guns-the largest in the history of military operations-fled through Belgium, Holland, over the Rhine, swiftly and efficiently, in a manner that Liddell Hart viewed not as a rout but as a skilful military movement...
...this point Sam Merrill, Jayvee shortstop, brought along as utility infielder, connected with a line single to send the winning runs rattling across the platter. Singles by Healey, Johns, Lupien and Hoye, combined with another Gannett double and a free ticket to Grondahl, completed the rout...
...attention only for a few minutes at the beginning of Alexander Nevsky. Thereafter he becomes intoxicated with the cinematic possibilities of a battle fought on a frozen lake between medieval armies. The set-to between invading German knights and a horde of moujiks ends in a German rout, the ice breaking under them as they run away...