Word: routed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mukden was lost. The Nationalist withdrawal had turned into a rout. As Communist troops took over the government's main Manchurian stronghold last week, Nanking received the radio message: "No more reports. Cannot get out of office. Goodbye." Nationalist planes began to bomb the city...
Dartmouth's two and one record--a strong but losing opener against Penn a decisive victory over Holy Cross, and a rout of Colgate--indicate that the photographer who handled these Big Green stars individually had a much easier time than the Crimson will have this afternoon in the Stadium when they try to handle them all at once...
...headlines hate to use a quiet word when a violent one will do. One day last week the Denver Post, refusing to admit defeat in its football headlines, found 32 ways of avoiding it: Blast, batters, murder, pastes, whip, crush, wreck, jolt, outscraps, spanks, rolls over, romps over, upsets, rout, toy, dump, bows to, tumbles, drops, trip, tops, sinks, buries, belts, wallops, wins, blanks, licks, trounces, subdues, turns back, edges...
...true liberal convictions whose worry over the state of the world has caused them to lean to a third party ... I say to those disturbed liberals . . . think again. Don't waste your vote. This is the hour for the liberal forces of America to unite . . . Together we can rout the forces of reaction once again...
...rout of the Commies brought about a victory for Sir Stafford Cripps, prim boss of Britain's economic affairs. He appeared at Margate and persuasively argued that higher productivity and more exports would do more for the workers' standard of living than wage increases would. The congress approved...