Word: routed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...august Aunt Augusta. But if Clapp's ingenue is enough to make a young man's blood run cold, Victoria Allan's Lady Bracknell is strikingly unintimidating. Hers is the best character part in a play filled with nothing but. As the grim dowager symbol of the aristocracy in rout, Allan actually manages to be boring; she plays on the same emotional level throughout, scarcely varying her slow delivery, never rising to farcical peaks of anger or ridiculousness...
With 11 minutes left in the second stanza, Mlezcko slapped in her second score as the contest became a rout. At this point the Radcliffe attack increased its control of the listless Jumbo defense, while its hapless opponents failed to capitalize on the 'Cliffe's numerous defensive lapses...
...ease with which Harvard tied the game set the tone for the rest of the afternoon, though it was yet another two quarters before the game was iced away. A few poorly timed fumbles--surprise!--prevented an early rout...
Reagan's strength in that search was strikingly demonstrated last Saturday in Springfield, Mo., when he inflicted yet another grievous wound on President Ford's hopes for the nomination. In a humiliating rout, with both real and psychological impact, Reagan won 18 of Missouri's 19 at-large delegates. When added to the Missouri delegates already won by Reagan, the 18-1 victory gave him control of the 49-member Missouri delegation, with 30 votes to Ford's 16 (and three uncommitted). The only Ford delegate to survive Reagan's weekend charge was Governor Christopher S. Bond, who himself suffered...
...brawl, looking dazed and crippled even from the oxygen-mask territory of the upper deck. About a third of the Stadium crowd, far more than had earlier expressed Beantown loyalty, cheered Rick Burleson's ensuing two-run homer that began what ended as an 8-2 Bosox rout...