Word: rout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Russians first tried to walk into Finland, across the Karelian Isthmus and around the shores of Lake Laatokka, the Finns described the troops they slaughtered as cannon fodder. When Russia's thrusts across Finland's narrow waist bogged down, then turned into the rout of Suomussalmi, the Finns contemptuously pointed out that the drives had been haphazardly planned, poorly supplied. But when, last fortnight, Russia began pounding away on all fronts, there was every indication that this mightiest offensive of the war had been carefully planned, was well supplied, and employed seasoned Red Army troops...
...addition, goalie Vint Freedley did not do anything to prevent the game from becoming a rout. To blame him for the defeat would be foolish, but he failed to make anything more than routine stops, and his defensive sallies out from the net were often ill-advised. Sullivan made every one of his chances count, and the game was soon sewed...
...that in the battle area of Suomussalmi the 44th Soviet Division 'lost 14,000 men.'... In reality, casualties of Soviet troops there have not exceeded 900 men." (U. S. correspondents visited the scene of battle, saw bodies of Russian dead, confirmed Finnish reports of an undeniable Russian rout. The Russians have admitted a "withdrawal." The Finns have never claimed the destruction of more than 6,000 Russians.) >-"The foreign agencies allege that Finnish troops cut communications along the Murmansk railway and that this line is now 'completely paralyzed.'... In reality, the Murmansk railway has not suspended...
Though Harvard refused to surrender to McGill's frantic efforts for a rout, it never displayed its scrappy determination and team play which won the B.U. and St. Nicks tilts. Captain Bill Coleman and his team were worried from the start by McGill's superior, smooth skating outfit, and they never won the confidence to return a concerted attack...
...brunt of the game fell on Vint Freedley, who time and again single handed withstood McGill charges which had penetrated the Crimson defense. At the most, only two of the McGill tallies can be blamed to failures at the not, and Freedley undoubtedly prevented a complete rout...