Word: routs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...valleys of olive groves around Sbeïtla lay more than 100 wrecked U.S. tanks, numbers of jeeps, motor transports, huge quantities of ammunition. Toward the German rear lines filed long lines of weary Allied prisoners. Valiant Allied air support kept the retreat from turning into a rout...
...rout from the very beginning, when Hall found the range for four successive deuces on long set shots. The Crimson defense, whether deployed in a zone or man-to-man, no matter what the lineup, was absolutely unable to halt the Cadets, who averaged about six feet four in height, and missed very few rebounds...
General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, 51, reputed the "most aggressive soldier" in the British Army, the small, tough strategist who as British Middle East commander planned the westward rout of Rommel. As Eisenhower's chief deputy, Alexander would have direct command over all ground forces: the British Eighth Army (General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery), the British First Army (Lieut. General Kenneth A. N. Anderson), the U.S. Fifth Army (Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark), the French West African Army (General Henri Giraud...
...Roosevelt suffered his worst political defeat since an irate Congress forced him to backtrack on packing the Supreme Court in 1937. What had at first seemed like a minor political revolt against his nomination of ex-Democratic National Chairman Edward J. Flynn as Minister to Australia turned into a rout. Faced with certain Senate rejection, Ed Flynn asked that his name be withdrawn. The President complied...
This did not mean that Vandegrift's men had crippled the Japanese Army or air power. It did mean that U.S. forces had withstood their first big test, even though the Japs had tried desperately to rout them. It did not mean that the Japs would give up without having more tries at the growing U.S. forces on Guadalcanal. Last week they came back with eleven destroyers. Dive-bombers and torpedo planes, aided by U.S. surface vessels, sank one, probably another, and damaged three...