Word: rout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rout. For the time being, the Nationalists were safe on Formosa. Last October, the Communists had launched the beginning of an invasion when they tried to storm the tiny island of Chin Men, just off the mainland from Amoy and 130 miles across the Strait of Formosa. The attack was a bloody failure. Nationalist troops commanded by trim, V.M.I.-trained General Sun Li-jen, who four months ago was placed in charge of Formosa's defense, routed a Communist assault force of 20,000, returned to Formosa with 7,000 prisoners. Most of the Reds have since been reorganized...
Scoring twice, Frank Hernberg led the Winthrop House Puritans to their five-touchdown rout of Dunster. Hernberg tallied once on an intercepted pass and again on an off-tackle slant from the three. Two blocked kicks and a down-field drive accounted for Winthrop's other scores...
...Here's a corker, he said, producing a clipping headed "Cop Clubs and Bombs Rout Harvard Rioters." In response to the mysterious disappearance of the Memorial Hall bell clapper, 2000 students, mostly freshmen, had broken into Radcliffe dormitory and ran through the halls screaming "We want out bell clapper and we want beer...
Harvard has run up the highest score in the series, a 74-0 rout of the Indians in 1888. The CRIMSON commented that "the Dartmouth men played a curious game." Forty-one years later Dartmouth, led by All-American Al Marsters, retaliated by trouncing the Cantabs...
...rout of the Crimson will testify that this foursome is one of the speediest and most efficient T-formation combinations in the country. Fliesehmann, who was injured early in September, was alternate with Hal Seidenberg, a bullish sophomore...