Word: rout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MORNING in mid-August, 400 Philadelphia policemen milled outside a ramshackle Victorian house five blocks from the University of Pennsylvania campus, awaiting orders from their superiors. The policemen knew roughly what task was expected of them before the cool morning became a sweltering summer day; they were to rout about 20 members of an organization formed by former college professors, drunks, and poets from their headquarters-home, located in an area of the city known for its semiradical population largely composed of students and working-class blacks. The police looked forward to this confrontation with this hard-to-define group...
...become a distressingly familiar pattern: a portentous roll of publicity drums that builds up to a toot on an uncertain trumpet. Early in the week the dollar came under a concentrated cannonade from some financial Guns of August, and its steady, summer-long retreat turned into a disorderly rout. It fell 4½% against the Swiss franc in a single day, while the price of gold, the ultimate refuge for investors worried lest their dollars become worth much less, hit an unheard-of $215.90 an ounce. So the White House passed the word that President Carter was "deeply concerned...
First performed solidly in the cage all season, saving his best performance before his hometown crowd during the Crimson's 17-4 rout over Penn at Franklin Field. Egasti, a midfielder, established himself as king of the trenches this season by dominating faceoff action. He also turned in 11 goals and five assists...
Todd Lundy--serving up nothing but softballs because of a pulled muscle in his side--teamed with Andy Chaikovsky to turn the number one doubles match into a 6-4, 6-2 rout, while Don Pompan and Greg Kirsch matched that feat with a 3-and-1 romp at third doubles...
Wilhite currently holds four Columbia career records. When he poled his eighth homer of the season in a 9-0 rout of St. John's he shattered the season record of seven set 65 years ago by a sophomore named Lou Gehrig. Sixty years from now Wilhite's glove may usurp the place presently occupied by Gehrig's dog-eared mitt, which is enshrined in Columbia's Butter Library...