Word: pommelled
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...arrived in the Congo to celebrate and declare its independence. On the way into Leopoldville from the airport, an exuberant nationalist pressed close to his open limousine, grabbed the King's sword from beside him, and flourished it above his head before the police could move in and pommel him away. Later, as the King entered the new parliamentary chamber, where Ghanaians in togas mingled with bemedaled Western ambassadors, the Belgians shouted, "Vive le Roi!" The Congolese Assemblymen, preferring to cheer the new nation's first President, replied with, "Vive Kasavubu...
...McDowell explained the risks. Jane Crawford and her farmer husband Thomas were willing. So she set out on horseback, the tumor resting on the saddle pommel, from Greensburg to Danville, Ky. The 60-mile journey lasted "a few days"-Dr. McDowell does not record just how many. Then, according to his own report in the Eclectic Repertory and Analytical Review...
Then, during the pillage of Mantes, William's horse, stumbled and threw him against the pommel of the saddle. That did it. The injured sac became gangrenous and William, at 59 an old man by medieval standards, could not combat the infection. At last the sac ruptured, Miss Gardner believes, and peritonitis developed. One consolation: even if William's doctors had known what was the matter with him, they wouldn't have known what to do; they had no sulfonamide drugs and no techniques for abdominal surgery...
George VI of England gave "the steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad" a four-foot, two-handed sword with a double-edged blade, a chased silver crosspiece, a grip wrapped in 18-carat gold wire, a pommel of rock crystal...
...Admiral last year won three races, finished second twice, third once. Offsetting his speed and good blood he had one dangerous defect: he was delicate. Last winter, instead of growing as a two-year-old should, he showed signs of remaining the same size. A specially knitted pommel cloth was by no means the only coddling that War Admiral got. Trainer Conway had him exercised just enough to give him an appetite but not enough to tire him. Instead of two meals a day, he got snacks between meals and suppers at midnight whenever he appeared hungry. Careful stuffing raised...