Word: routs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Redskins v. Chicago's Bears for the professional (i.e., world's) football championship. But the 33,632 persons at Chicago's Wrigley Field early this week knew the real issue: Was Redskin Sammy Baugh or Bear Sid Luckman the better passer? The game turned into a rout, the Bears won 41-to-21, but the question was still unanswered...
...daily press is so full of news about the rout in Russia and the drive in Italy and our smashing air raids in the Pacific that every TIME subscriber is almost sure to have a lot of disconnected information about the week's actual fighting when he picks up his copy of TIME. And so perhaps the most important job for the Foreign News editors is to keep this stirring news of battle from blinding our readers to important, underpublicized news that is growing quietly toward headline stature in other sectors...
...British strategists today are deep in a guessing game. Was the Wehrmacht's retreat in Russia a rout or a planned withdrawal? Will Hitler make a stand on the Dnieper Line? (A Swedish daily quoted him: "Here I am and here I shall remain.") If this line falls, where will the Wehrmacht stand next...
MacArthur's offensive proved that trained men and modern equipment, skillfully employed, could rout the Japs in their own jungles. The attack had a precise pattern. MacArthur, less than a year ago converted to air power, used it masterfully. His planes pinned down the Japs at the bases from which they might otherwise have launched counterblows. Airborne infantry and amphibious forces caught the Japs in one trap after another. Bombers and artillery, concentrating on the Japs' encircled positions, pulverized them before Allied troops moved in. The enemy scattered and fled or died. Up to this week some...
...tremendous was the momentum of the Red drive that at any moment the retreat could become a rout. By all rules of war and logic the Red Army needed time to rest, replenish supplies, restore communications. But it might well have reserves of hidden strength enabling it to press its attack without a respite...