Word: pummeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mencken has been a prodigious workman with a fine regard for the craft of writing. Even the "professors" he loved to pummel had to cheer his massive, scholarly and readable American Language as the best thing of its kind. At another extreme, his autobiographical books (Happy Days, Newspaper Days, Heathen Days) are among the most engaging of any in U.S. writing. During the past decade his writings and utterances have tended toward peevish and irresponsible flailings of men and politics. But he has seldom hit below the belt and has never used the stab in the back. Whatever his justifications...
Dartmouth lost to Babson, 5 to 4, early in the season and then went on the pummel the Crimson...
...grabbed his leaflets and disappeared back into the dormitory. Another looked on approvingly, shouting "Communist bastard," and the last of the trio, who "acted drunk," proceeded to pummel Stocking...
Quill thanked the Mayor, then got ready to pummel him some more. He called for a flat $2-a-day raise for all his workers on New York City's transportation system, which has been losing $40,000,000 a year. Wryly, the Times commented that perhaps here was the ideal case to apply the C.I.O.'s "ability-to-pay" principle...