Word: rout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tuan. He is soon upstaged by the arrival of Ava Gardner; the sight of her well-mounted emerald necklace nearly turns the military two-step into a rout. Ava is a mysterious Russian baroness, and her escort is her roommate at the Hotel Mont Blanc, Charlton Heston, splendid in the dress blues of a U.S. marine. Prince Tuan furiously departs, taking with him a troupe of Boxer sword dancers who had terrified the guests with their choreographic snickersnee until Heston got into the act and threatened to slice the fattest of the group into Boxer shorts. Next morning the German...
Lacrosse is not a game for kindly folk, as the good Quakers of Pennsylvania amply proved last year. The Red and Blue lost all five of its Ivy League games, including an ignominious 15-3 rout at the hands of the Crimson...
...Thursday, Maryland took up where Rutgers left off. The Terrapins blasted Munro's stickmen 15-5, taking maximum advantage of ten Crimson penalties. Seven Maryland goals came on extra man plays and the varsity never led in the one-sided rout...
...artillery, mortars and strafing planes. They could reply only with rifles, one mortar with 20 rounds, and a bazooka with four rounds-handled by a man who had never fired a bazooka before in his life. The fight for El Argoup lasted a week and ended in a rout that cost the Egyptians three tanks, seven armored cars and 160 dead. De Carvalho asked a haggard sheik if his men suffered from battle fatigue. The sheik frowned: "We suffer from many diseases in Yemen, but battle fatigue-what is that...
...stunning upsets this weekend. Cornell nipped Penn 78 to 76 Friday and then toppled Princeton 73 to 67 the next night. Friday's game left Penn, Yale, and Harvard tied for first place with 3-1 records; on Saturday Penn regained the top spot with an 86-66 rout of Columbia...