Word: rout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...support operation, embarrassed U.S. officials blamed INC infighting. True, a Kurdish INC faction did invite the dictator back into northern Iraq's no-go zone. But documents obtained by TIME suggest that by failing to match tough words with tough deeds, the U.S. helped bring on the rout...
Snowden snapped Harvard out of its slump by scoring a career-high 27 points in a 75-59 rout of Cornell on Feb. 14. The next day at Columbia, Snowden shelled the Lions for 21 as the Crimson rolled, 81-57. With his performance that weekend, Snowden moved into sixth place on the Harvard career scoring list...
...least four home runs in a Crimson softball game was junior Andy Green, currently one of the paper's Managing Editor. Green, who left the yard six times in last year's game against the Nieman fellows, hit two homers of his own in yesterday's rout. The Nieman fellows were themselves no slouches. They included several strong hitters, as well as a short-stop who had read about baseball all his life but never played the game...
Last October Kagame staged a cross-border incursion, joining Zairean Tutsi rebels to rout murderous Hutu militias that had fled across the frontier with the civilian refugees. When Mobutu's army vanished in the face of this onslaught, a full-scale Zairean rebellion suddenly seemed possible. Museveni told his Rwandan friend to tap Laurent Kabila as the leader of a broader movement, and today Kabila, with key help from Kagame, is ready to take Zaire...
...final game at Soldiers' Field, the Crimson (23-11, 14-2 Ivy) set modern records for hits (31) and runs (27) in its 27-5 rout...