Word: rout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Canadiens won with a marvelous demonstration of why they are hockey's dynasty. Montreal was humiliated by the quick and aggressive Rangers in the series' opening game, losing 4-1 in a rout so thorough that fans in the Montreal Forum could not believe their eyes. Nor could the Montreal players believe their ears. Ken Dryden, the league's top goaltender for the past three years, was booed out of the nets and replaced by Michel ("Bunny") Larocque. Defenseman Larry Robinson, a 6-ft. 3-in. version of the legendary Bobby Orr, suffered a special torture...
...until the 11th inning of Saturday's doubleheader opener here, it was anything but the annual chuckle-and-rout affair versus the Hanoverians. Fortunately, it turned out only to be a heart-stopping scare for Harvard, as the batsmen came up with a critical sweep over the Big Green...
...other NHL quarterfinal action last night, Mike Bossy beat Tony Esposito three minutes into overtime to give the New York Islanders a 1-0 win over Chicago. Montreal defeated Toronto, 5-1, and the New York Rangers evened their series with Philadelphia at one apiece with a 7-1 rout over the Flyers. Both the Islanders and Canadiens hold 2-0 leads in their series...
...Johnson and junior jack-of-all-trades Sue Harper led the Harvard rout. Harper, the meet's top point-earner with 13, won the 100- and the 400-meter hurdles, tying her old University record in the first event and setting a new mark of 1:13.6 in the second...
...massive artillery barrage on key border positions. Hardest hit were Vietnamese concentrations around the cities of Lao Cai, Muong Khuong, Cao Bang, Lang Son and Mong Cai. The People's Liberation Army, untested in major formation warfare since it crossed the Yalu River in October 1950 to surprise and rout the U.N. forces in Korea, stormed across the border at 26 different points...