Word: rout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...names of the villages (Liushe, Wangchiachuang, etc.) are meaningless 100 miles away, but in some, every single woman, without exception, was raped by the soldiers in occupation. In villages whose occupants had not fled quickly enough, the first action of the Japanese was to rout out the women and have at them; women who fled to grainfields for hiding were forced out by cavalry who rode their horses through the grain fields to trample them and frighten them into appearance...
Captain Hurry Platt and George Fisher are slated to be the starting forwards, Bom Person is the ranking center, and Jack Padden and Tank Wilson are the first-string guards. All of the five starters are lettermen who participated in last year's rout...
Whether or not the minuscule Communist Party (100,000 accredited members) was ever the menace Red-baiters deemed it, last week it appeared to be in rout,* two leaders reported fleeing to Mexico, another pair too ill to be questioned, the Communist New Masses in danger of folding because of lack of funds, newsstands reporting the Daily Worker hard to sell. Only regret of many U. S. citizens was Browder's prosecution on a seemingly minor offense, thus permitting cries of persecution from the Left...
...Trois Rivieres, Canada, sortied too far from his stockade and lost his scalp to Iroquois. Last week one of the indiscreet Governor's most indiscreet descendants, another restless inhabitant of Trois Riviéres, Quebec's Conservative Premier Maurice Duplessis, lost his political scalp in an overwhelming rout...
Last Saturday, when Harvard lost to Dartmouth, probably even the dumbest Betty Co-ed in the stands realized that the Crimson team hadn't even started to roll. The sad fact was that it had not made one first down. As a Monday morning answer for the Dartmouth rout, Boston sports writers launched an acid personal attack on the leaders of the H.A.A., Harlow and Bingham especially. In fact, a typical mid-season bout of asparagus-throwing has followed Saturday's game. Some carping alumni are even criticizing the spirit of the players, and yelling for Harlow to turn...