Word: routed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will not swell the rout/ Of lads that wore their honours out,/ Runners whom renown outran/ And the name died before the man." Al most as powerful as the drama of athletes aging is that of the golden boy destroyed in his youth...
Bogged Down. Like Thompson, Jay Rockefeller won in a rout, posting the biggest victory margin (66%) in West Virginia history. Like Thompson, he promised a limited, efficient government. But Rockefeller has had trouble living up to that goal. A balky state legislature, though controlled by fellow Democrats, has shredded some of his major proposals. "His first seven months were a total loss," admits Senate President William Brotherton, a Rockefeller ally. "He's not flamboyant, and that's a drawback. He states the facts like an accountant." Rockefeller does not demur from this judgment, but he likes to remind...
What might have been a close battle had the hoopsters not been forced to play immediately following their third place Ivy tourney showing, turned into a rout early on as the Wildcats waltzed to a 20-points first-half bulge on the strength of some hot outside shooting that the tired Harvard women just couldn't handle with their exhausted zone defense...
...watcher: "The Chinese should have been more careful about their Cambodian commitment. Supporting a weak but obstreperous ally is very bad politics." Now Peking fears that its deteriorating relations with Viet Nam will push Hanoi further into the embrace of Moscow. Worst of all, if the Vietnamese were to rout the Cambodians, a Kremlin-manipulated puppet regime could emerge in Phnom-Penh and tilt the balance of power in Southeast Asia in Moscow's favor...
...Blumenthal, more than anyone else, who persuaded Carter that to try to push a sweeping tax reform program through this session of Congress would only frighten businessmen. It was Blumenthal, too, who decided in December that the time had come to intervene in money markets to halt the disorderly rout of the dollar, and who won Carter's approval to start the program while the President was traveling overseas...