Word: pummelings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both sides continued to pummel each other with air raids, although neither Iran nor Iraq, curiously, attacked each other's vulnerable oil wells. Iraqi warplanes bombed several factories on the edge of Tehran International Airport, a refinery at Tabriz and the oil-loading terminal at Kharg Island. Iran concentrated its bombing raids on the northern Iraqi cities of Kirkuk, Mosul and Baghdad. Tehran claimed it had shot down 57 Iraqi planes, destroyed scores of tanks and armored personnel carriers, as well as six missile boats, a merchant ship and 67 military bases and key industrial sites. Tehran also claimed...
...went down in a fusillade of fire that lasted five minutes. Many of the soldiers in the rear formation joined in. As the shooting stopped, a great shout rose from the watching mob: "Freedom! At last we have our freedom!" Some of the soldiers rushed forward to kick and pummel the corpses...
Freshman Andy McNerney followed Widerman's lead with a win of his own. McNerney, an impressive and rapidly improving 126-lber relied on his tilt move to pummel an overmatched Ed Lijo...
Mark Cooley warmed up with a 9-7 win against Coast Guard's Bob Getchel, and then returned to pummel Lowell's Chuck Kolodgey, 13-5. The Crimson's 190-pounder continued to rely on his strength and endurance to power him past the opposition...