Word: rout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORD SURGERY, the process of creating words by eliminating letters from longer words, is epitomized in one surprising sentence: "Show this bold Prussian that praises slaughter, slaughter brings rout." Now eliminate the first letter of each word and read what remains...
...Sept. 14, the Serbs began the breakthrough in the mountains west of the Vardar River. Backed by the French, they punched a gaping 20-mile hole in the Bulgarian defenses. The Bulgarian retreat turned to a rout under strafing by R.A.F. machine gunners. Blue-turbaned Moroccan cavalry, under French officers, carried out what was perhaps the last great cavalry march of European warfare, advancing 57 miles in six days across craggy, wild Balkan mountains to seize the chief enemy bastion of Skoplje. In Paris, Winston Churchill later recalled, "it was recognized at once that the end had come." Six weeks...
...heavyweight race should be another rout. M.I.T. and Navy are seeded second and third, and they both disappeared behind the Crimson's second boat during regular season competition...
...Crimson's two biggest question marks, two-miler Walt Howlett and high-jumper Chris Pardee, are now men to beat in the Heps, on the strength of their convincing wins in Saturday's rout...
...Montreal Canadiens: an easy, 4-0 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks in the last game of the Stanley Cup playoffs; at Montreal. Jean Beliveau started the rout with a goal after 14 sec. of play, and the Canadiens added the other three before the first period ended. After that, it was back to the brawl. In seven games - 17½ hrs. of playing time-players from both teams spent 5 hrs. 29 min. in the penalty...