Word: routing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd of spectators cheered lustily. The non-strikers in their cars rattled toward the mill. The pickets rallied to shower them with rocks, but another volley of grenades put them finally to rout, sent them fleeing down the road and across an orchard, many of them abandoning their cars. Members of the crowd joined in the chase and beat up several pickets whom they caught. Several others were rescued and released by the well-organized deputies. Taken into "protective custody" was Fred Mayberry, leader of the pickets who was seated in the car of the police chief...
Welles, Welles how are Ewell today? Shirley this will be a big day with the 43rd annual Crimson-Lampy rout scheduled for the Easton end of Soldiers Field today. With both sides Hickoxing and with an Aiken their Foote, you can put your Falthorn the Weinberger nine who get up Earle to practice...
Observers in Rome easily understood this as retaliation for the way the British press gloated over Italy's disastrous defeat at Brihuega in Spain two months ago (TIME, March 29 et seq.) and her even more ignominious rout at the hands of the Basque fishwives of Bermeo last fortnight. Deeper than this, Mussolini has burned for months over British insistence on having a representative of Haile Selassie's Ethiopian Government at the Coronation...
...also greatly strengthened Leftist morale. The Basque lines again held firm, pushing back General Mola's men at several points. Then came a bit of news even more galling to the pride of Benito Mussolini than the rout at Brihuega. In an attempt to encircle Bilbao Italian troops pushed ahead. One Italian brigade reached the port of Bermeo eight miles from the capital on the Biscay coast, captured it. Here they were counterattacked by Basque militia, for the most part fishermen and their armed wives. When the Italians broke ranks, the bloodthirsty fishwives chased them into houses, beat them...
Spaniards are poor marksmen and worse at close order drill, but they do not run away. Not in all the nine months of Spain's civil war has there been anything on either side to match the complete rout of the Italian divisions at Brihuega, and Rightist General Franco and his German and Italian backers were bound to make that defeat good last week. More than prestige was at stake in the attack on Bilbao. Bilbao captured should give the Rightists control of the Biscay coast, remove serious military pressure on their rear, allow thousands...