Word: rout
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Texas won in a rout last year (40 to 11), but Oklahoma led the country in per-capita executions. And the state is beginning 2001 ambitiously. It can't claim credit if Timothy McVeigh is put to death--he's a federal prisoner--but it has already scheduled eight of its own through Feb. 1. And one of the two last week included the first black woman put to death in the U.S. in nearly a half-century...
...their bid to become the first collegiate football team to reach 800 wins, the Bulldogs jumped on the Flyers from the start, and never looked back in a 42-6 rout at the Yale Bowl...
...Crimson's opening appearance displayed its depth as it broke through for a 19-8 rout...
...that growing disquiet add the recurrence of warfare and terrorism in the Middle East last week. Result: a full-fledged panic on Wall Street. By the time the rout ended, the Dow Jones average had plunged 379 points on Thursday and the tech-heavy NASDAQ index stood at its lowest level of the year. Though both markets rebounded on Friday, that did little to dispel the underlying unease that the economy may be a Ford Explorer speeding along on Firestones...
...hope of a repeat performance. Not only did she lead Harvard to victory, she showed no mercy. With her team up 2-0 at the break, Nagle lit up the Big Red for three goals in the second half to lead No. 19 Harvard to a 5-1 rout...