Word: rout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Held even for the first period, the freshman hockey team broke loose in the second period to rout Boston College. 10 to 2, at Lynn last night...
...orphan (Chet Allen), a singing medicine man (Dan Dailey) and a beautiful welfare worker (Diana Lynn). By the time the picture has run its course, the medicine man and welfare worker, who are about to be married, have adopted the orphan and his dog, and have also put to rout a pack of crooked politicians responsible for lamentable conditions at the orphanage. Spotting this confection at intervals are some pleasant old songs, e.g., Oh, Suzanna and All God's Chillun Got Wings, pleasantly sung by Dailey, Chet Allen and "Scat Man" Crothers...
...raise money to complete it. The Star campaigned for street numbers on houses, modern jails, a closed sewage system and through railroads, and even bested the Pennsylvania Railroad in a fight to eliminate grade crossings. Once, in a burst of effervescence, after the Star fought to rout a "swindling" local government, the paper chanted in banner headlines : VICTORY! VICTORY!! VICTORY...
...Bliss and Hubbard completed the scoring and the rout with a goal apiece in the last two minutes...
Naguib, who had sent troops to rout Farouk, had sent a tax collector to rout Nahas. How, the confident investigator asked Nahas, had he managed to accumulate his huge wealth-two palaces and a large farm? Nervously, Nahas insisted that he was personally poor; the investigator would have to see his wife. Madame Nahas explained that she had made the family fortune by dealing in buffaloes. Unusual trade, murmured the investigator, and how had she got together her original capital? A 10,000-pound (Egyptian) wedding gift from her husband, she snapped. The investigator folded his papers. Everyone knew that...