Word: rout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rush to Rally. But the rout soon stopped. Major Chukwama Nzeogwu, 30, a hero of the 1966 coup that toppled Nigeria's civilian government and briefly installed Ibos in power (before a second revolt by Gowon's supporters that fueled the slaughter of Ibos), rushed to the front. "This is a war we must fight to win," he told the Biafran soldiers. "Anyone who runs away will be shot. You are better than the Northerners, all of you." To aid the Ibo regulars, more than 50,000 of the civil defense volunteers poured in from all over Biafra...
...last analysis, though, it was the Israeli military virtues of superb tactics and timing, its professionalism in the martial arts, that turned an Arab defeat into a classic rout likely to be studied with admiration at war colleges the world over. Beyond those tangibles there looms the dedication of the Jews, forged in thousands of years of dispersions and persecutions, their inviolable determination to ensure modern Israel's survival as a nation. "Everybody fought for something that is a combination of love, belief and country," said Moshe Dayan at week's end. "If I may say so, we felt...
Carl Edmunds completed the rout by trouncing Harvard's Bobby Kidder at the seventh position...
Equally savage has been the rout of its top leadership. Seven members of Mrs. Gandhi's cabinet at the Center have been defeated. Among them is S.K. Patil, the tough political boss of Bombay and a member of the "Syndicate" that had effected, in 1964, the unanimous choice of Lal Bahadur Shastri as Nehru's successor and, in 1966, the election of Mrs. Gandhi as Shastri's successor. The two other leading lights of the "Syndicate," Mr. Kamaraj and Atulya Ghosh of West Bengal, have both been defeated. So have been the Presidents of Congress party organizations in 6 states...
With the score tied 3-3, the varsity proceeded to romp through six bouts in a row. Senior Brian Keidan started the rout with a 5-3 decision over Tom Masterson '45. Steve Shea followed with the first of his two wins in epee, a 5-0 whitewash against Eric Sollee '52, who is normally a sabre man. The third varsity triumph was by Harry Jergesen, who avenged last year's 5-0 loss to Giles Constable '50 with a 5-1 decision...