Word: rout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bogley and Chuck DeVoe, both seniors, took the first two singles encounters from Captain Charlie Ufford and John Rauh. Sophomores Pablo Eisenberg, Earle Schulze, Ed Dailey, and Mike Weatherly completed the rout...
...third doubles, duo, composed of seniors Chase Peterson and Dick Becker had even less trouble, taking their match 6-2, 6-0, as the Crimson completed the rout...
...storm-ravaged coast of Southwest Ireland lie the six fog-bound Blasket Isles,* where 14 centuries ago Ireland's Celtic saints built Christian shrines of turf and mud to fend off pixies, pookas, hobgoblins and leprechauns. In 1588, a 1,000-ton Spanish galleon fleeing from the rout of the Spanish Armada piled up on the rocks of Great Blasket Island. Dozens of its crewmen struggled ashore, intermarried with the half-wild descendants of the "saints." From their union evolved the modern Blasket Islanders: tall, rawboned Celtic fishermen who speak little but Gaelic but have the jet black hair...
...Communists [were] put to rout...
...Communist jargon, means corrupt capitalist. But last week, as Red China's tiger hunt (TIME, March 17) screamed into new heights of shrill persecution, the quarry seemed less like vicious beasts of the jungle than treed and terrified house-cats. Chinese Communism has developed a new weapon to rout out it's bourgeois enemies, a weapon unthought of by less imaginative dictatorships: trial by sound-truck. Like baying hounds at the foot of a tree, Communism's sound-trucks last week planted themselves in the streets outside of tradesmen's shops and called their "crimes...