Word: routing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...central Germany would be struggles of annihilation. Ruined Berlin mattered little now as a military prize. The Russians this week already had a prize probably more significant to final victory: Vienna. There the siege which might have destroyed much of the city had been quickly turned into a Nazi rout. The street battles of seven days & nights were the last phases of a strategic victory that had been won in four weeks of battles along the roads from Budapest. In those battles the Germans had desperately spent armor and manpower. The Red Army had chopped apart eleven armored divisions...
...smashing defeat by NROTC Company 3B of last term's champions, Standish, climaxed a week of action in the intramural basketball tourney. The 40 to 20 rout was accomplished by the experienced Navy quintet by virtue of their fast break and tight defense, that Standish could not penetrate...
WHILE THEY WERE BEING BOUND IN A BATTERED PLANT HALF A MILE FROM WHERE THE BATTLE FOR INTRAMUROS STILL RAGED A JAP SNIPER WAS HIDING IN A SCRAP PILE 50 YARDS AWAY. OCCASIONALLY POT-SHOOTING AT PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. GUERRILLAS GUARDING THE PLANT ARE STILL UNABLE TO ROUT HIM OUT. WHEN THE PRINTED PAGES WERE BEING TRUCKED TO THE BINDERY IN A WEAPONS CARRIER, THE JAPS FIRED ON US A FEW MILES OUT OF THE CITY. NO ONE WAS HURT...
Holy Cross's fast-breaking quintet put on an exhibition of smooth ball-handling and deadly shooting Saturday night to send the Crimson down to its tenth defeat of the campaign, 61 to 36, in the Indoor Athletic Building. Partially atoning for the rout was the Jayvees' crushing victory over Exeter earlier in the afternoon...
...only other club which has shown strength has been Standish, which, owing to its 58 to 13 rout of Company B, resides in third place with a record of one and one. H.V. Spanos' 22 markers have sparked the new Freshmen, who are tied with Adams and Company...