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Word: routs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brilliant sophomore Jim Saltonstall scored three goals, and veteran Keith Chiappa contributed two toward the rout. But the individual who contributed most to B.U.'s demise was aptly named Terrier goalie John Lack, whose monumental ineptitude gave Harvard several undeserved scores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Booters Massacre BU, 9-2, Display Surprising Offensive Power | 10/5/1964 | See Source »

Mary Poppins. It is jolly old London, 1910, and one proper English family is all adither over the servant problem. Having put a whole series of nannies to rout, the two Banks youngsters compose a want ad listing desirable qualifications: cheery disposition, rosy cheeks, plays games. Father tears it up and writes an advertisement of his own that draws a queue of cross, solemn applicants. Before you can say Walt Disney, they are whisked away from the doorstep by a high wind, and over the rooftop sails Mary Poppins, dangling from her open umbrella. "I'm sure the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Have Umbrella, Will Travel | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

Relief Pets. Anger over Harlem's housing took concrete shape last fall, in rabble-rousing Jesse Gray's "rent strike." All told, Gray claimed that 4,500 tenants from 325 buildings refused to pay their rent because their landlords had failed to rout the rats, drain the swampy basements and plug the holes in the walls and ceilings. Mayor Wagner lent his support by ordering a new drive against "slumlords," but the Buildings Department, with a backlog of 250,000 complaints, is still snowed under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Place Like Home | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...uncomfortably familiar to contemporary minds. But lessons for the world are properly understated by director Robert and, instead, he guides his actors at uproarious play. One side attacks with a borrowed old nag (utterly frightening from a child's point of view) and wins that battle in a rout. Later the other side borrows a tractor as the escalation continues. The buttons are essential to the business because prisoners are tied to a tree and ceremoniously have all their buttons cut off. As their pants fall and tears flow, they lose any semblance of honor...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: The War of the Buttons | 4/25/1964 | See Source »

Despite as early threat by the Crimson to turn the game into a rout, the Crusaders fought back from a 3-0 deficit in the first half to finally tie the score with five minutes of regulation time remaining...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Squad Nips Holy Cross During Overtime | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

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