Word: pummelling
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...hear shells whizzing high over the neighborhood. But if it weren't for the sake of a newsletter, I'd be completely oblivious to the noise (as, indeed, is everyone). H & I is fired mostly for psychological purposes. Free strike zones are areas the army is allowed to pummel day and night. Anything that moves in one of these zones--they are multiplying--is subject to all kinds of fire...
...opening sequence that roughly sets the tone, two hoods, contracted by Con Man Ronald Reagan, show a fine flair for menace as they trail Cassavetes to a school for the blind, where they pummel a winsome blind receptionist. In another scene, they threaten to parboil a man sweating off pounds in a steam cabinet, thus warming up for the moment when they thrust leggy Angie Dickinson headfirst out the window of a skyscraper hotel room, trying to make her tell what happened to the $1,000,000 swag from a mail robbery...
...home game, they seem as good as the pros. Since 1958 they have scored 2,073 points to the opposition's 223, and it looks as if it may be Pflugerville über alles forever. Toddlers practice cross-body blocks under the goal posts while the high-schoolers pummel their opponents on the field. Fourth-graders get written permission from their mothers to play tackle football, and organized competition begins in the fifth grade. The junior high school team has not lost a game since...
Bedtime Chillers. Roughhousing with the second shift, Lou Marx likes to pummel and chase them frantically up and down the three-story house, allows the boys to squirt water guns and smash toys to their hearts' content. (Idella feels the boys are working off their aggressive instincts.) Once a week the Marx brothers pile into their parents' 13-ft.-wide bed for the night. There they are treated to a bedtime-story session in which Marx spins chiller-dillers about such bad guys as a deformed villain who sautes children's eyeballs for supper. The "mean-man stories...
...another-bore cannon moved in on the flank. The New York News's Columnist Ed Sullivan, whose paper objects to his mentioning Winchell by name, blasted a speech Winchell made at a dinner given for him by the Los Angeles Friars Club. Winchell had used the occasion to pummel some of the "ingrates" who surround him, including Drew Pearson. Reported Winchell, reprinting a West Coast newspaper report: " 'WW said [at the Friars' dinner that] Pearson latched onto WW's gimmick of announcing the "Stop the Music" mystery tunes and when WW urged Pearson (via friends...