Word: routing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked as if the game would be a rout by the Puritans until late in the second period. Then Leverett stopped fumbling and started playing ball. Personal fouls came faster, but the Bunnies were able to bring their total to 27 points...
...army was crushed last fall. Then (according to the Times), China-trained Kim Tu Bong called for peace; he was executed. The Chinese Communists, the story went on, waited for Russia's Korean satellite forces to disintegrate; then they marched in from Manchuria, reversed the Red rout without Russian tanks or other heavy materiel, kicked Kim Il Sung on to the sidelines, took over the show in Korea...
...Kielley, a sophomore from Brooklyn. Only one man of the first five is a senior; he is six one Wally Baird who will open at guard. The other guard will be sophomore Earle Markey, who scored 22 points in the Crusaders' only game so far, an 83 to 85 rout over American International College...
...freshmen captain scored 18 points in the team's opening game against M.I.T., and 14 in the Brown rout. His most effective short is a one-hand push from the corner...
Early in the Korean war U.S. planners had been haunted by the possibility that Communist China might go to the aid of North Korea. But after U.N. armies broke out of the Pusan perimeter and turned the North Korean retreat into a rout, the planners breathed more easily. China's chance to strike a decisive blow in the Korean war had passed...