Word: pummeling
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...concerns Wechsler--as well as many college officials--is that heavy drinking has been associated with health problems, car crashes, unsafe sex and aggressive behavior among college students. It was alcohol-induced "aggressive behavior" on our campus, for example, that influenced a senior linebacker on the football team to pummel a visiting high school recruit last year...
...once, the children pummel him some suggestions...
...months when I forgot about the Red Sox. I tried to keep their memory alive by wearing the team cap almost every day, but words like "Fehr," and "Harrington" (and even "thesis") made me forget. But Wednesday, all I thought of was the Red Sox as I watched them pummel the evil Twins and start their triumphant march to the World Series...
These clashing interests and interesting clashes all converge in a nefarious scheme to mine gold in the world's largest remaining virgin cloud forest, in Costa Rica. Left battles right, state clashes with university, and faculty members pummel one another in front of TV cameras. Some of them see the campus as a marketplace, some as a battlefield, some as a pickup joint and some as a "passing microclimate." None of them think it may be a place of learning. As Smiley notes wryly of one academic, "The well-known reluctance of midwesterners to talk about actual sums of money...
...Arkansas teacher's aide was convicted of assault late Thursday and sentenced to 90 days in jail for encouraging a gang of her fifth graders last month to pummel a boy who was disturbing the class. Pupils said the aide, Amanda Howard of Little Rock, laughed while up to 10 students beat up 11-year-old Eugene Pitts, even -- according to one student -- saying "Everybody kick his butt." The incident came to light after a local hospital that treated Eugene for nose and rib injuries reported it. The school district had never told police. Howard, who was freed on bond...