Word: pummeling
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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...
...impulsive extravert who is most effective when he can pummel audiences with sweeping generalities delivered in his raspy, staccato voice, Tanaka is not at his best when he is in a corner. But there is every indication that his political situation will grow even tighter in the coming months. His next hurdle, once the budget is out of the way, could be yet another economic confrontation with Washington. The U.S.-Japanese trade imbalance that prompted the Nixon economic shokku of 1971 stood at a record $4.2 billion at year's end, and U.S. officials warn of further trouble unless...
Bursting into a swimsuit factory in Passaic, N.J., Sargent Shriver merrily shook hands with sewing-machine operators, accepted a bouquet of roses without looking silly, then responded to a dare by stitching up a bikini top. As delighted women crowded around to squeeze Shriver's arms and pummel him, one of his aides, Mark Shields, said happily: "It's carnal. Positively carnal...
Breathing hard, a shabby old man climbed two flights to his flat in a Bronx slum. As he turned the key, he heard behind him a sudden pummel of racing feet. When he began to shout, somebody struck him powerfully five times in the left side with a knife, and as he fell to the floor of his kitchen, a flesh-colored hearing aid popped out of his ear and landed close to his face...