Word: routing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frontier as fixed in 1940 in accordance with the agreement between Soviet Russia and Rumania [and] treacherously violated by the Rumanian Government, in alliance with Hitlerite Germany. . . . The Supreme Command of the Red Army has given the order to advancing Soviet troops to pursue the enemy until his final rout and capitulation...
...single-purpose weapon, designed to rout troops from trenches, pillboxes, dugouts, similar fortifications, the flamethrower's use is peculiarly fitted to Pacific theaters of operation, where dense foliage permits its use at short range...
...Battle of Crécy (1346) was notable for the introduction of two "secret" weapons by the British-gunpowder (which fizzled) and the longbow, with which the British put the armored French knights to rout. Nevertheless, the Hundred Years War dragged on into the next century without decisive result...
...Columnist Louella O. (for Oettinger) Parsons (from her first husband) turned authoress and brought forth her autobiography, The Gay Illiterate (Doubleday. Doran; $2), her wise publishers jumped their publication date and rushed a few carloads of the remarkable volume to Hollywood's bookstores in time for the Christmas rout. The book sold like...
Battle For Survival. The retreat was not yet a rout: the Teutonic habit of obedience was still firm, the armies' strength was still great, the commanders still able. But, however masterly, it was a retreat. Momentary survival, a postponement of utter defeat, might lie somewhere in the rear. But victory could not lie there. Victory lay in the opposite direction...