Word: rout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from dark to dark, from month to month in the long hot season to keep their fields alive. From sun to sun they sleep on a bed of rushes in a hut of reeds. In the autumn they harvest a few sacks of sweet potatoes. In the winter they rout stumps out of the hard land to increase their pitiful sum of soil. In the spring they reap the winter wheat and thresh it with a flail as old as agriculture. In the summer they climb down to the boat, row across to the mainland, trudge off to the spring...
...heroism of soldiers and marines dying on nameless hillsides in an alien land. Like many another marine. Leckie has a low opinion of General Douglas MacArthur, whom he charges with making a fatal mistake in splitting his forces for the dash to the Yalu River. Result was the disastrous rout of U.S. forces by the Chinese Communists, so poignantly described by S.L.A. Marshall in The River and the Gauntlet. But Leckie believes that the war was worth its high cost of 33,629 American lives. "In Korea." he writes, "invasion was repelled, and in such manner as to remind...
Into Thomson-Houston inner offices to rout out anarchy came new managers. Among them was Jacques Dontot, 46. a flexible but outspoken engineering graduate of France's prestigious Ecole Polytechnique, who had risen to technical director of the nationalized Saar coal mines, but was casting around for "a different working silhouette." Dontot, who became managing director of Thomson in 1960 after only four years with the company, is described by his colleagues as a "managerial genius." His rebuttal: "You don't need genius in top management. You need ponderation. You need to accept good news and bad with...
Studying the Rout. Under a long stretch of rule by G.O.P. machine politicos from 1884 on. Philadelphia became nationally notorious as an example of municipal inertia and political corruption...
Studying that rout. Reformer Johnson concluded that the old G.O.P. organization had not even put up a fight. He found that in about 500 of the city's ''divisions'' (precincts), the G.O.P. had no workers at all. When Johnson sent out letters to the 2.400 committeemen listed on the organization rolls. 400 letters came back marked "Not known at this address.'' Johnson decided that what the G.O.P...