Word: routed
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Things are lookng up for Harvard's varsity football team. After gloomy predictions at the beginning of the season, the Ivy League results this week seem to hold out the promise of chance for a fine Harvard season. Besides the 59-0 rout of Bucknell by the Crimson eleven, these other scores have raised the hopes of coach John Yovicsin's squad...
...Harvard cross country team ran circles around two Ivy League opponents at New York's Van Cortlandt Park yesterday. The Crimson harriers swept seven of the first eight places en route to a 16-47 rout of previously undefeated Penn and a perfect 15-50 victory over Columbia...
...Millennium. At any rate, the 29th G.O.P. Convention, looking up at its nominee, was not in a mood for character analysis. After a conclave made dull by the swift rout of Nixon's foes and enlivened only briefly by a spat over the vice-presidential nomination, it was time for exultation. One thing that his detractors have never under stood about Nixon is his total identification with the Republican Party and his understanding of it. His acceptance speech was pure Nixon, telling it as the party would like it to be?1968 style...
...threatening to unload garbage on the Muzak man's beach. Marie does her bit by joining a major political party and then subverting the party hacks by persuading slum dwellers to organize a rent strike. There are other liberal, square attacks on the illiberal squares, among them the rout of a women's march protesting the establishment of a neighborhood clinic for drug addicts...
Though only a third of the council seats were at stake, the rout left Labor in control of only 43 out of 374 boroughs in England and Wales; only five of the 43 were in big cities...