Word: routs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rule of Rules. The rest of Kennedy's legislative program shortly met with an utter rout in the House at the hands of Virginia's leathery old Howard W. Smith, who has been a Congressman since Kennedy was 13 years old. The consent of Chairman Smith's powerful Rules Committee is needed to send a House bill into Senate-House conference. Backed up by the committee's long-time alliance of Republicans and Southern Democrats, conservative "Judge" Smith handed Northern Democrats a tough warning: the committee would kill off Kennedy's $1.25-an-hour minimum...
...command his madcap mission, Scriptwriter Estridge appoints an aging Kipling Stripling, Captain Scott (Kenneth More), and to follow him he assembles an improbable rout of colonial types: the pudgy little rajah (Govind Raja Ross), his noisy American governess (Lauren Bacall), the British governor's unflappable wife (Ursula Jeans) and dithering secretary (Wilfrid Hyde White), a nefarious newsman (Herbert Lorn), two stolid Sikhs attached to primordial machine guns, a charming person (I.S. Johar) who runs locomotives, and an unspeakable person (Eugene Deckers) who runs guns. They all pile into an ancient passenger car drawn by a wondrously dilapidated steam engine...
...Prevent a Rout. Said Lleras: "I want to make it quite clear that I do not consider you bound to help in the economic development of any part of the world." Nonetheless, he thought that only foreign aid could assure his coffee-growing Andean country of 14 million of "a decisive stake in the material civilization of the West," preventing "a retreat, a rout, a historical disaster." What kind of help? Latin America is asking only for loans, and guarantees "restitution to the American taxpayer." But aid lending "is fundamentally a political act that cannot be judged by traditional banking...
...World War II, the Russians, breaking through west of the city on the front held by 220,000 men of Mussolini's Italian Expeditionary Force among others, hurtled on across the Don steppes and never finally stopped till they got to Berlin. In six weeks of catastrophic rout and retreat, the Italians' ten divisions suffered casualties officially estimated at 115,000 men. Of these, they evacuated 30,000 wounded and listed 11,000 as dead. Later, the Russians returned 10,000 Italian P.W.s. What became of the other...