Word: routings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home debut last Tuesday, Harvard blew an early 3-0 lead against B.C. The lax men may have been a little too anxious to rout the Eagles, angered after B.C. showed up an hour late and not yet in uniform...
Regardless of the face that Michael Parkhurst--the head of the Independent Truckers Association--would have liked to paint on the finish of the strike, the end result was a full scale rout for the independents. Dropping his predictions of 98 percent compliance to 70 percent during the first week of the strike, Parkhurst was eventually dealing with a 15 to 20 percent reduction in truck traffic--hardly the dent he had hoped for. The media concluded the affair by losing interest after the obligatory violence was curtailed, and the more fanatical independents and the lunatics who took advantage...
...form, the Boston Garden at dinnertime on the first two Mondays of February 1982 was not the place to be. Unless, perhaps, you were a rabid Harvard-hater and enjoyed watching the Crimson lose even in amazingly boring style. The opener versus B.U. was a 5-1 Terrier rout even less close than the score indicated. Jack Parker's men checked Harvard relentlessly, slowing down the Cantabs until they looked like zombies...
Several minutes later, the icewomen appeared on their way to a rout as White took the puck from Carroll and Lightfoot and smashed it past Mason for a 2-0 lead. But despite on a passes and a strong defense the Crimson offense faltered in the final two periods in which the icewomen failed to connect on 30 shots on goal...
...Columnist Patrick J. Buchanan, who would feel libeled if called a liberal: "The White House is in full retreat-and if the President does not step out into the middle of the road and fire a pistol into the air, it will degenerate into a rout. Upon that assessment, those rejoicing at the spectacle and those sick at heart over it are in concurrence." Buchanan is among the sick at heart...