Word: rout
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...This up from-the-gut approach is credited with providing the clarity needed to rout Al-Qaeda, but Bush's continued directness nourishes the image, particularly among America's European allies, that he will leave the rest of the world behind, imperiling the post-Afghanistan peace, efforts to stop weapons proliferation and chances for regime change in Iraq. South Korea had taken Bush's war-like talk so seriously he had to reassure them he wasn't planning to invade the North. Ever since Bush inducted the Communist hermitage into the "axis of evil," South Korea has been nervous that...
...consolation match, the Crimson took third place with a surprisingly easy rout of the Bulldogs. Harvard avenged a 6-3 loss earlier in the week...
...seemingly inevitable inertia ushering us towards unqualified despair. A.E. Housman found such a vision in his timeless “To an Athlete Dying Young,” when he bids a deceased youth farewell with the heartening words, “Now you will not swell the rout / Of lads that wore their honours out / Runners whom renown outran / And the name died before the man.” By claiming Aaliyah after a mere 22 years on earth, death may have won a small victory. Ironically, though, by asserting itself overzealously and taking Aaliyah when her talent...
...heard it during the Crimson’s 6-0 rout of Vermont. It told me something: the boys are back...
Going after al Qaeda in the Philippines will be even more difficult than hunting the terrorists in Afghanistan. The 650 U.S. soldiers who have been deployed on the southern island of Basilian to help the Philippine armed forces rout the fighters of a radical Islamist group known as Abu Sayyaf are stepping onto sometimes treacherous turf. That much was made clear Wednesday in neighboring Jolo province, where three Marines of the Philippine army were killed in a firefight - by Philippine police. (The guilty policemen were former guerrillas of the Moro National Liberation Front, a Muslim secessionist group that had been...