Word: routs
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Dartmouth picked up its first win of the season with a 31-14 rout of Fordham. The Big Green got two touchdown runs and a touchdown pass from quarterback Ren Riley, and had an incredible defensive effort that held Fordham to just three rushing yards...
...rout by Furman which followed was, in the words of Kohler. senior Steve Gaffney and freshman Toure McCluskey, "pretty much a disaster...
...being the party in power in 1994. Even while recognizing that in midterm elections the President's party almost always loses seats in Congress, the Democrats are bracing this time for a potential disaster. The G.O.P. may well win four additional seats in the Senate -- or in a true rout, the seven they need to regain a majority there -- while picking up 25 more seats in the House. Given what the President has already endured in the present Congress, losses of that size would give the opposition make-or- break power in the next one, where battles on welfare reform...
...would go home to Chicago after this fall's congressional elections. Wilhelm's fate made for constant speculation inside the Beltway. The Clinton loyalist has been made a scapegoat for election losses since 1992 and is disdained by Democrats who believe he wasn't doing enough to prevent a rout in November's ballot. Some congressional Democrats complained that Wilhelm was so intent on using D.N.C. funds to promote Clinton programs like health-care reform that he has given short shrift to Democratic candidates hungry for support. Mikulski, who sees herself as the protector of the Senate's women, griped...
...Normandy rather than withdraw to another defense line along the Seine. But when U.S. forces under Bradley did finally surge out of the peninsula at the end of July and sweep south and east, 21 German divisions were outflanked and almost destroyed. Their retreat over the Seine became a rout, and the victorious Allies reached Paris in a week...