Word: routings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Assuming the Illinois primary is not a rout either way, Elliot Cutler, a top Mondale adviser, offers a plausible scenario for the remainder of the campaign: "A week from now, you [reporters] all will be saying, 'It's coming down to New York', after that you'll be saying, 'It's coming down to Pennsylvania.' Then I guarantee you everyone will be calling June 5 Super Tuesday II." New York chooses 172 delegates in a primary on April 3, and Pennsylvania selects 117 on April 24; on June 5, 333 delegates will...
...Hampshire: plain-folks places nearly as thick with TV equipment and visiting reporters as Sarajevo had been the week before. But unlike the Olympics, which had enough surprises to keep things interesting, the quadrennial race for the Democratic presidential nomination was beginning to look like a predictable rout. "We got the gold and silver medals," declared Walter Mondale's polltaker, Peter Hart, after the Iowa caucuses. "Everybody else fought over the bronze." The candidate to beat put it less colorfully. "I have won overwhelmingly," he said, even before lowans in 2,495 precincts had left their caucuses...
Gemayel's troops had lost control of West Beirut to the Shi'ite and Druze militias in a vicious battle the week before, and the rout south of the city left his government controlling little more than Christian East Beirut. The Muslims were expected to make their next major thrust at Suq al Gharb in the mountains east of Beirut, where the Lebanese Army held a strategic position overlooking the presidential palace at Baabda, just outside the capital. Fighting did break out around Suq al Gharb and along the "green line" separating West and East Beirut...
Schismatic problems within the Amal may be compounded by growing tensions between Berri and his Druze allies, led by Walid Jumblatt. After joining forces to rout the Lebanese troops from West Beirut, the two factions may soon find themselves jousting for supremacy in a new political order. Now that the Amal has joined the ranks of the principal players in Lebanon, it is discovering the frustrations that come with power...
...freshman Bob Sweeney set up the trying goal with four minutes left in the regulation and, after his team survived a Crimson power play in overtime, stole the puck in the Harvard zone to set up Ed Rauseo for the game-winner--all to set the stage for the rout of N.U. a week later...