Word: pummelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Siegel is a film maker who works mostly within the conventions of the action movie. His films move with a closely calculated, irresistible momentum. He also has an explosive talent for violence that turns his action scenes (like a bank robbery in Dirty Harry) into set pieces that pummel the senses...
Frazier tracked him relentlessly, often missing but sometimes landing one big body blow after another. Frazier's whole strategy was to pummel Clay's body and arms, something which the in-close fighting allowed him to do all too often. After round ten, Ali was badly bruised and exhausted from all the dodging...