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Word: routs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Captain Tom Nicosia passed to Ince on a fast break soon afterwards, and Ince put the ball past the helpless Cornell goalie. By this time, the Harvard team felt in control. Zuckerman and Jim Kilkowski finished the rout with goals number 11 and 12. Kilkowski was one of several midfielders who did a superb job picking up ground balls, a major factor...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Lacrosse Squad Crushes Cornell; Regan's Seven Points Lead Team | 4/21/1969 | See Source »

...last week mounted two large-scale counteroffensives, virtually the first of such major sweeps of the Abrams era. West of Saigon, some 10,000 troops from three U.S. divisions, using tanks and armored vehicles, swept through sections of the huge, French-owned Michelin rubber plantation in an effort to rout some 7,500 Communist soldiers. Only 40 miles from the capital, the overgrown, colonial-era plantation was being used as a staging ground for what the allies feared would be an assault on Saigon. In I Corps, the 3rd Marine Division completed their eight-week-old sweep through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF PEACE IN VIET NAM | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...discipline of the house whips. They spend a lot of their time sneaking swigs of vodka and planning romantic acts of rebellion. After a particularly strenuous caning by the head whip, the three take a blood oath: "Death to the oppressor!" They turn a school military exercise into a rout by threatening to bayonet an officer, and later sabotage the school's Speech Day ceremonies by detonating a smoke bomb and gunning down faculty, parents and students as they stream out of the auditorium. The film ends with its own Kiplingesque title, at once a speculation, an incitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: If Does Not Equal Zero | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Denver's 9-2 rout was an accurate relection of the difference between the two teams, but it was not indicative of Harvard's play. The Crimson skated with the Pioneers for one period and almost prolonged the battle with two near-scores in the second. But the Westerners out-classed the losers in every department and pulled away in the last half of the game...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Harvard and Michigan Tech Meet In Consolation Contest of NCAA's | 3/15/1969 | See Source »

Eight Denver players scored in the rout--Harvard's worst loss of the year--and the first and second line centers, Tom Miller and Bob Trembeckey, led the team with three points apiece. Trembeckey scored two goals...

Author: By Mark H. O donoghue, | Title: Pioneers Thrash Crimson In Semifinals of NCAA's | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

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