Word: pummeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standard is high, and if Bryant no longer goes down into the trenches to shove, pummel and growl at his players as he once did, he is no less a force in their lives. Surveying practice from a high tower overlooking two full-size fields, one grass and one AstroTurf, he notes every detail. Says All-America Tackle Marty Lyons: "He's seen things in me that I didn't know were there." Adds Linebacker Barry Krauss, another of the latest crop of Alabama All-Americas (37 so far): "I love him. The biggest thrill is that...
There is a rich literature of political assault. "We love him for the enemies he has made" was the boast of Grover Cleveland's supporters in 1884. Teddy Roosevelt gloried in confrontation with tycoons ("malefactors of great wealth"). F.D.R. had his "economic royalists" to pummel. Harry Truman is still celebrated as a man who liked to "give 'em hell...
...half-time Scalise exhorted his charges "to play Bornes." After a chant of "Pummel Princeton" they went out and did both...
Juvenile delinquents have been with us for a long time. Horatio Alger romanticized them in books like Ragged Dick, written nearly one hundred years ago. And Henry James, looking at Boston in 1904, complained of "School-bullies who hustle and pummel some studious little boy." To James, the presence of these street urchins was a sure sign that his beloved Boston was on the way down. Today the school-bullies are still a problem, but the method of dealing with them--at least in Massachusetts--has undergone radical change. Ever since the last Massachusetts training school closed...
...freshmen had trouble clearing the puck from their own end throughout the contest. Persistent forechecking enabled the Kings to pummel Crimson goalie Hynes with shots...