Word: rout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their last meeting, two months ago, the Huskies outshot and outmuscled the Crimson in a 5-1 rout. Northeastern's top forward line of Patti Storey, Shelley Spencer and Carol Latorre scored three times against the usually stingy Harvard defense, and B.U. netminder Kathy Scanlon stopped 20 Crimson shots in that game...
Following a come-from-behind 4-2 win over Yale on Saturday and a 12-0 rout of Wesleyan last Wednesday, last night's victory raises the icewomen's record to 9-5-0 as they prepare for Ivy League rematches against Dartmouth tomorrow and Yale this Saturday...
Diane Hurley and Cathy Carroll each scored had tricks to lead the Harvard women's ice hockey team to a 12-0 rout of Wesleyan last night, improving the Crimson's record to 7-5-0 in what may become in first winning season...
...plied Vietnam with more arms and cash (which rarely reached its intended beneficiaries) than it could handle. And--since the Vietnamese could not do the job alone--our "advisers" and later our troops would rout communists from the political "infrastructure" and preserve our control of the presidential palace. That theory justified escalation after escalation for 12 bloody years, through more than 57,000 American and an estimated 1.5 million Vietnamese deaths. Ultimately, we were in Vietnam not to "win" the war--for Tet hammered home the realization that this was unrealistic--but to attain "peace with honor," a euphemism...
They have been eager to make a legend of him since he was at Notre Dame, where he put together a rout of improbable comebacks by coming off the bench, and a national championship in 1977 when, by the third game, he was finally the starter to stay. If his rise has been a little jerky to now (after all, a man must keep returning to the bench in order to vault from it again), there is no stopping the legend this time. The sportswriters wonder if he had been confident before the game, if he knew he was going...