Word: routs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future boom. The angry debate over steel brought home to the public the fact that inflation had been all but stopped for two years. When this realization sunk in. what had begun as an orderly decline in an overpriced stock market abruptly turned into a rout...
...exporter of vegetables. Irrigation experts are siphoning water from the Yarmuk River and tapping long-unused Roman cisterns to make 75,000 acres of desert bloom. One project had unexpected results: 5,000 hungry camels found the new grass so tasty that the army had to be used to rout them out. "With any luck," says one economist, "Jordan will become a selfsupporting, viable nation." Fingers crossed, U.S. observers figure another decade should...
...other hand, of course, a team that gets off 57 shots in a game as the Crimson did against Northeastern could easily throw a goalie into a state of acute shell-shock and reduce the game to a rout...
...Crimson had one of its easiest matches of the '61 season against Cornell, losing only four games during the day. Most of the team which participated in that rout are back--eight of the first nine men, to be exact...
Other surprises have marked this 86-year old series--for instance the unprecedented 54 to 0 rout perpetrated by Yale in 1957. This element of the unexpected, always present in a game whose outcome rests traditionally on the uncertain factor of morale, has made the Harvard-Yale rivalry the greatest in college football...