Word: pummelling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Some people jump rope to work on their footwork, while others, like Doshi, pummel the speedballs until they are nothing but two bluish blurs dangling from the ceiling...
...solid, so stolid that cross-cultural jokes fizzle around him; producers have stopped trying to turn him into a smiling Jackie type. And since his mission is not to learn American ways but just to catch the damn villain, a Li movie can get down to basics: punch, kick, pummel, kill...
...assaults would kick off a new war. America's $2 billion radar-eluding B-2 bombers could attack Iraq from bases in the U.S., England or Diego Garcia, and Navy warships already in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean could pummel key Iraqi targets with long-range cruise missiles. Once Iraq's air defenses are crushed, more vulnerable F-14s and F-18s from three or four Navy carriers by then in the region could begin striking additional targets. The speed of the air war would depend in part on which neighboring countries--Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Turkey, Saudi Arabia...
...weeks Ariel Sharon launched a massive military offensive he hoped would pummel the Palestinians into submission. The tactic backfired: Not only did the assault fail to stop Palestinian attacks deep inside Israel, but the heavy Palestinian death toll also finally forced the U.S. to resume its stalled mediation efforts. That mediation prompted Israel's Monday retreat - Palestinians had insisted there was nothing to discuss while Israeli troops remained in Palestinian Authority territory...
...forma calls for restraint, the Bush administration has lately been scrambling to reinvent itself as an even-handed activist mediator. The President on Wednesday castigated Sharon's tactics, sponsored a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a Palestinian state and sent Marine General Anthony Zinni back to Israel to pummel the two sides into a cease-fire...