Word: rout
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...since 1938. Then, after Franklin Roosevelt's unprecedented sweep in 1936 had given the Democrats fantastically bloated congressional majorities?333 to 89 in the House, 75 to 17 in the Senate?the G.O.P. rebounded and recaptured 80 seats in the House and six in the Senate. The 1964 Goldwater rout left the G.O.P. on the short end of a 295-to-140 count in the House and a 67-to-33 margin in the Senate. Dick Nixon overstated the case only slightly when he warned: "This is the year the Republican Party either goes up or goes...
When the day was over, goggle-eyed cops found they had confiscated an array of weaponry that would have enabled the original Minutemen of 1775 to rout the British at Lexington and conquer England as well. The trove included 115 rifles, five mortars, nine machine guns, 26 pistols, brass-knuckled trench knives, machetes, hunting knives, throwing knives, cleavers, two bazookas, three anti-tank grenade launchers, 50 camouflage uniforms and steel helmets, 30 walkie-talkies, ten cans of black powder, crossbows, and more than a million rounds of ammunition-plus arrows for the crossbows...
Grinding out yardage on the ground most of the way, the Dartmouth junior varsity football team piled up 20 points in the final quarter to rout Harvard yesterday...
...Military Historian S.L.A. Marshall, the U.S. Army's Operation Paul Revere II was perhaps the major military operation of the summer in Viet Nam. Airlifted from the east coast almost to the Cambodian border in less than twelve hours, the 1st Air Cav proceeded to rout the enemy in a battle "larger than San Juan Hill and El Caney combined, bigger and more impressive than Pork Chop Hill, bloodier than Cantigny, and lasting as long as Belleau Wood."* Yet that fight, Marshall notes incredulously in the current New Leader, did not rate a single lead headline...
...Pirates got acrobatic fielding from Roberto Clemente and Matty Alou, plus timely hitting: in one game they spotted Atlanta a 5-1 lead and roared back to win 8-6. The Dodgers had Koufax, who breezed to his 25th victory (and fourth in a row), an 11-1 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies. They got a bonus in the return to form of Don Drysdale, who looked like his old overpowering self when he shut out the Chicago Cubs 4-0. At week's end the Dodgers were leading the Pirates by H games, the Giants...