Word: routs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July 1861, British Artist Frank Vizetelly, sent over to cover the war by the Illustrated London News, incurred the wrath of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton by writing too candidly of the Union defeat: "Retreat is a weak term to use when speaking of this disgraceful rout, for which there was no excuse. The terror-stricken soldiers threw away their arms and accoutrements, herding along like a panic-stricken flock of sheep...
...Olive Branches. All the militiamen Castro has mustered so far-10,000 men with Soviet-bloc guns-have not been able to rout the rebels out of their rocky, cave-pitted hillsides in the Escambray mountains 170 miles east of Havana. The fighting is small-scale but so bitter that militia units are losing their taste for the chase. Castro, like Batista before him, has resorted to promising common criminals their freedom if they will fight. For the rebels, help from the outside increases: the Escambray has received much of the 40 tons of opposition arms airdropped into Cuba; small...
...committee of prominent Russian artists and writers has already protested that the "senseless dissonance" of a modern hotel would ruin the "harmonious Kremlin ensemble." But the traditionalists have been put to rout by the erection inside the Kremlin itself of a vast meeting hall in the glass-and-chromium tradition of the U.N. itself...
...carnage, highlighted by vicious artillery barrages that killed three civilians for every soldier, had ended in a rout for Rebel Captain Kong Le, the malcontent paratrooper who had seized control of the city last August to demand conciliation with the Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas and an end to six years of halfhearted jungle warfare. Kong Le and his Pathet Lao allies fled north into the jungle last week, dragging their Russian-supplied howitzers behind them over primitive roads. Into the city rolled Prince Boun Oum, 53, the new Premier, along with Laos' real strongman, General Phoumi Nosavan...
...personal affront, and when the new boy outrages the other officers too-by suggesting that the manner of their footing in the fling, a point of pride in kilted regiments, is a disgrace to Scotland-Jock sees his chance and takes it. At the next regimental rout he defiantly leads a drunken reel. The colonel throws a tantrum, disgracing him self before his officers and the battalion before its guests. But the triumph and the whisky go to Jock's head, and he makes an even more costly blunder than the colonel's: he "bashes" a corporal (John...