Word: rout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them to give ground. Van Fleet sent the U.S. 3rd Division (which he had apparently held in reserve) to the aid of the ROKs, and the 3rd stopped the Reds in their tracks. Then the Communists began a retreat which by week's end seemed to be a rout...
...Chinese suffered a double beating-first while attacking, then while retreating. Army Chief of Staff Collins estimated the Chinese casualties for six days of their offensive at 90,000, and last week they were losing more thousands every day. This week their resistance had stiffened noticeably, and the "rout phase" of their retreat seemed to have ended. But Van Fleet still had about 90 more miles (roughly to latitude 39° 30') in which to grind them down before a rapidly widening front would create new problems for the U.N. forces...
...that's a lot"; "the Pause that Petrifies"), it got cold feet. The slogans obviously splashed close to Coca-Cola and closer to Pepsi-Cola. Although the strips had already been mailed out to Li'l Abner's 700 subscribers, United sent a hurried order to rout out the "Peppi," leave a blank before "Borgia." Most newspapers...
...varsity lacrosse team unleashed some scattered bursts of power on a weak M.I.T. squad yesterday, trouncing the Beavers, 13 to 2, on Tech's Briggs Field. The rout marked the Crimson's eighth win in ten starts and the varsity's last breather before taking on the Big Three of New England lacrosse, Williams, Dartmouth, and Yale...
After sweeping the singles, Coach Jack Barnaby held his regular first and second doubles teams out to prevent, a rout, but the next three pairs all won to keep the shutout. Dave Watts, the usual fifth singles player, was withheld because of a blister on his finger. Later, however, he combined with the regular first doubles player, Bill Goodman, to win the third doubles match...