Panic had yet to set in, for the rousting of civilians was nothing unusual.

He indicated the other man, whom Curt recognized from his initial rousting.

This one is called the Rousting of the Undesirables.

"We won't stand still for no rousting, Charlie."

There are those who delight in rousting the truth from its concealment amid pieties and convention.

Bolan spotted three sentries, two of them not even rousting themselves from the guard shack to come out; one of the two looked asleep.

The unit handled a variety of duties, from summons sweeps to the rousting of panhandlers to elaborate robbery stakeouts and setups.

The next to be chosen Guardian was the military leader who had succeeded in rousting Edward Balliol, Archibald Douglas.

The rousting of Homer accomplished two things: it cleared the cabin for the lady and it enabled Commodore Tupper to shove off.

Now, every day, she soldiers on to find a residence where the rent is not covered by in-kind payments of late-night bus rides to shelters and early-morning rousting.

But the rousting has kept few away - and does not yet seem to be having its intended effect of bringing back fare-paying riders who have abandoned the system in fear and disgust.

The unjust and unprovoked rousting, beating, maiming and killing of however many so-called minorities does not evoke much of an emotional response from their more comfortably situated fellow citizens.

He thought of the two cops, rousting the Gypsies when they came into town ... when they had presumed to start doing their Gypsy tricks on the town common.

On Kosovo, Mr. Milosevic counters with what most historians would say is an outrageous claim: that NATO bombs and Albanian rebels did the killing and the rousting.

To the Editor: Re "Judge Orders End to Rousting of Homeless Near Church" (news article, Dec. 20): While religious communities try to provide shelter, the numbers are reaching a level beyond control.

I thought about querying the bus company, a general rousting of drivers on that route--then realized it was too cold, that any driver who remembered picking up Betty would have come forward during all the '47 publicity.

After the church took the city to court to stop the rousting, Judge Lawrence M. McKenna of Federal District Court in Manhattan issued a temporary restraining order on Dec. 20 barring the ejections.

But with the rousting of hundreds or possibly thousands of dedicated insurgents from Falluja before the American invasion and capture of the city last week, the role played by this area as a transit and resupply district for insurgents has become even more troublesome, Colonel Johnson said.

It was from here, in 1963, that Kurds received one of their first tastes of the Arab Baath Socialist Party's designs for the Kurdish region, when units from the compound stormed into this city, rousting suspected dissidents from their sleep and bringing them to interrogation centers inside.

A half-dozen other teen-agers, members of the Teen Council of Greenwich, told of similar experiences: aimless cruising from party to party, usually uninvited ("her parents were away, 200 kids showed up") hanging around "The Ave," Greenwich Avenue, drinking, doing a little dope, and the almost inevitable rousting by the police.

But the worldwide rousting of Al Qaeda has definitely disrupted its operations, and we've obtained a trove of information we're using to prosecute the hunt still further. . . . Until Al Qaeda finds an opportunity for the big attack, it will try to maintain its operational tempo by striking softer targets.