Word: routs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slashed wildly at the white wires, then fell dead at the center of the bridge, his body across the disconnected lines, his clippers at his side. Dozens of Mayenne townfolk watched McRacken's dash and death from their windows, saw the Americans then speed across the bridge to rout the Germans out of town. Villagers stole out on the bridge, placed a white sheet on Private McRacken's body and smothered it with dahlias...
...have it in him to be an executioner. He was shocked at the spectacle of an American comrade reveling in his role as a rear echelon judge-executioner; at the party's callousness to the common claims of humanity; e.g., mail from the American survivors of the Aragon rout of 1938 was left piled up in the party's Paris office because a comrade had swiped the stamp money. Also, he came to know that of the millions collected by the party for "Spanish aid," 99? out of every dollar stuck to the party's pocket...
...most pressing problems in our state-educational quality in the several state universities. Quality is subtle, but there is nothing subtle about the continuing loss of outstanding teachers and researchers from one's alma mater for better opportunities elsewhere. The "pursuit of excellence" is becoming a rout! The demand for "rigor" in education is fast yielding to rigor mortis instead...
...hands, a goatish nature. When Jacquemar first glimpses this temptress, "her beauty aroused in him an irresistible, nameless thirst which, if it was sexual, seemed to endow sexuality with a new role in the world." Coolly, she insists on her innocence in l'affaire Gouffe and puts to rout all of Policeman Goron's neatly assembled evidence. Protectors rise on every side: prominent lawyers, wealthy men, the demonstrating street mobs of Paris and Marseille. Her luckless partner goes off to the guillotine, but triumphant Gabrielle is freed, and sails for the U.S. with a dazzled financier named Carapin...
...match began with hopes for a Crimson victory as the matmen swept three of the first four bouts. Tony Woodfield's easy 12-3 decision over Habib Ladjevardi at 123 inspired a similar rout by George Doub (130), who decisioned Phil Scott, 14 to 0. At 137 Tom Ownsley was downed by Yalie Tim Welles, but captain Nick Estabrook (147) came through with...