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Maybe the memories of a 96-57 rout at the hands of Boston College are still too fresh...
What started out as a spirited first-half clash turned into a lackluster second-half rout. W&M ran and ran and ran (170 second-half rushing yards) and ran up the score, too, 20 points to Harvard...
Junior Jeff Zimmerman, who led the team in scoring last weekend, set a possible NCAA water polo record by scoring two goals in four seconds, and he finished with a total of seven goals in the rout...
...explain. Life in my home town of Manchester, England, is a simple affair. The conversational staples are weather forecasts and family suffering ("Oh, you know our Terry. His leg's dropping off. It's great pity"), while the libido can only be coaxed into action after a drunken rout. As recession engulfs the city, the poor inhabitants will be so busy watching TV and eating white bread and fat all day, they may even forget they have bodies...
...FATAL RETREAT: It was shortly after 5:30 on the fateful afternoon of April 29 when a still containable riot turned into a rout. Roughly 25 police officers were trying to restrain an angry crowd at an intersection in South Central L.A.; an attempt to make arrests prompted shouts, rock throwing and pushing and shoving between the police and the mob. An amateur videotape taken at the scene recorded a voice shouting over the police loudspeaker, "I want everybody out of here. Florence and Normandie. Everybody. Get out. Now." As the outnumbered police drove off, the rioting roared...