Word: routs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There really wasn't much for Coach John Yovicsin to say at the press conference following Saturday's 51-0 rout of Lafayette. Nor was there much of anything for anyone...
Harvard appeared to be on the way to equalling last year's 9-0 rout, but the offense suddenly gave out. Shots became scarce as Coach Bruce Munro put in substitutes, and the little coordination present disintegrated...
...feel," he says. "Sometimes I'll go into a corner a full car length farther than at other times before braking or shifting." Last week, on Darlington's narrow, 11-mile track, with its notoriously tight corners, Petty's feel turned a race into a rout. Gunning into the lead at the start, he stayed there for all but 19 out of 364 laps, coasted to a five-lap victory that was worth $26,900 and boosted his 1967 winnings to $110,175-just $3,395 short of Fred Lorenzen's all-time season record...
...Israeli Army depends upon the intelligence and initiative of the individual soldier. Even in the lower ranks, I was surprised to find polyglots who responded intelligently to the questions posed by reporters in a numfber of different languages. One of the reasons that the Israelis were able to rout the Egyptians so quickly was that many of the Egyptian felcheens simply were not prepared for the high level of technology which their Russian arms required...
...Arabs with breathy ballads about Israel's coming defeat, has a new job. She is directing a campaign to collect gold, jewelry and stashed-away cash to help Egypt's battered economy. If her daily pleadings have not convinced the Egyptians of the costliness of their rout by Israel, Gamal Abdel Nasser has. Last week he promised his people "a real, cruel and difficult struggle ahead." And "economic struggle," he told the fellahin, "means economic sacrifice. We must eliminate all privileges...