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After sweeping the singles, Coach Jack Barnaby held his regular first and second doubles teams out to prevent, a rout, but the next three pairs all won to keep the shutout. Dave Watts, the usual fifth singles player, was withheld because of a blister on his finger. Later, however, he combined with the regular first doubles player, Bill Goodman, to win the third doubles match...
...them, almost all pro-MacArthur), the Democrats fell back in confusion. Compelled to stand by their party, but unwilling to attack MacArthur in the face of public opinion, they mumbled about the President's right to fire an insubordinate general. They were only saved from complete rout by a freshman Senator, Oklahoma's Robert Kerr. Like a Democratic Horatius, Kerr fought a desperate battle all afternoon in the Senate. "The Republicans are making a lot of noise on this floor today," said he, "but they are dodging the real issue. If they . . . believe that the future security...
...leave her shattered hulk to rust! Long has she rocked below, And many a fish has swum to see The grandma of the "Mo'; Above her piles the coastal tramp And plops the dinghy's oar;--The Yankee Cheese Box on a Raft Shail rout the Reb no more...
...preceding Saturday the Crimson gridiron battalions had suffered a 46-0 rout at the hands of Army, a debacle so grave that solace could not be gained by writing it up, as Hitler's propagandists used to do with the German war reverses, as "a strategic retreat to prepared positions" or "an incredibly skillful disengagement from the enemy." This was 19 years...
June 15, 1940-4 p.m. France had fallen. Down the main street of a country town staggered a drunken rout of French soldiery, bawling the self-disgust of their nation in a savagely gross song. "Tant qu'il y aura de la merde dans le pot," it went, "ça puera dans la chambre" (When the pot's full, no wonder the room stinks...