All these ingredients made for a thorough 4-2 victory at Madison Square Garden to start their first-round series, the first time the Rangers had home ice advantage since 1996.
A much larger American force might assure a quicker and more thorough military victory, but at the risk of substantial American fatalities.
It was a thorough 3-1 victory for the home team, a confirmation that the Yankees were indeed a single game better than Baltimore in the American League division series; they were two better in the East race.
In its opening game, Georgetown showed why it had earned the lofty national ranking, brushing aside 13th-seeded Pittsburgh with a thorough 64-52 victony on Wednesday in the second round of the conference tournament.
Young, fast, tough and talented, they advanced to the penultimate round today with a thorough 77-65 victoverOklahoma StateState in the final of the East Regional of the National Collegiate Athletic Association men's basketball tournament in the Carrier Dome.
More hardened sides than Arsenal would not have permitted such a night to contain anything more than a thorough and uncomplicated victory.
A bowl victory as thorough as Georgia's on Tuesday means that an off-season of optimism is inevitable.
On Tuesday, one day after a dismal defeat to lowly Philadelphia, the short-handed Nets rebounded with a thorough and systematic 108-98 victoverover another last-place team, the New Orleans Hornets.
His victory was thorough.
So thorough was the army's victory that the risks of that seem tiny for now.
