Word: routs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across Pakistan last week, patriotic banners adorned public buildings, guns boomed, and thousands thrilled at the sight of "enemy forces" being put to rout in mock battles. The occasion was the first anniversary of the outbreak of the border war with India-a conflict in which the shooting stopped only after Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin brought the two foes together at Tashkent last January...
...three-week exhibition tour of the U.S., he will play 15 games simultaneously in Boston. It hardly mattered that he eventually lost two games while winning five and drawing two; he had conceded each of his honorable opponents a generous handicap, without which it would have been a rout...
...rout began in the second inning when Tobin looped a single to center. He took second when no one covered the bag and was driven in by Bob Welz's double to left...
...Saturday's singles matches, Harvard players swept by Yale in three straight victories, discouraging the Yale racquetmen so much that they didn't bother to contend for the doubles matches. Princeton's team, captained by their top squash player Burt Gay, added to the rout with a close win over the Yalles...
...weekly Batman series is intended as camp-meaning it's so bad that it's good, at least in the view of some (TIME, Jan. 28). The four-to-twelve age set continues to marvel while Batman and his protégé, Robin the Boy Wonder, rout such Gotham City scoundrels as the Penguin and the Mad Hatter. Teen-agers and the college crowd still consider it sophisticated to snigger at Batman's wildly exaggerated plots and cliché-cluttered dialogue. As a result of the show's high ratings, merchants are anticipating...