For more than two agonizing minutes the clinched behemoths
pummeled each other.
From Milo to Rulon: from beating an "unbeatable" foe to coming back from a tragic injury, American wrestler Rulon Gardner credits both faith and family for his persistence in getting the job done
Brian struck the dog on its back so hard with a pogo stick that the stick bent, while Jessica, armed with a golf club, also
pummeled the creature.
Friends indeed. (The Goodness of America)
But in the previous year, a super-typhoon
pummeled the area and produced a flood in which the river's flow rate peaked at about 65 times normal.
Moderate flows help carve rivers. (Earth Science)
When Hurricanes Dennis, Floyd, and Irene
pummeled North Carolina in the fall of 1999, they delivered a three-punch combination that for years to come may disturb coastal ecosystems there and disrupt fishing in the Atlantic Ocean.
Hurricanes' full havoc hasn't yet been felt
The results of that work suggested that a huge number of asteroid or comet fragments had
pummeled the moon's crust roughly 3.9 billion years ago.
An early cosmic wallop for life on Earth?
Asteroids and comets have
pummeled the inner solar system since its infancy, but most places haven't retained a good record of the bombardment.
Far side crater count yields surprises
Notes Jerry Jarrell, deputy director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, it's also the first model "with some skill" at offering 3-day forecasts of a hurricane's intensity--or wind speeds--and the area to be
pummeled by damaging winds (both depicted above).
Better hurricane forecasts
Minutes after the Northridge earthquake rattled Los Angeles last January, atmospheric waves from the tremor
pummeled Earth's ionosphere at the edge of space, satellite measurements reveal.
Bouncing an earthquake off the sky
More than 7 weeks after Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
pummeled Jupiter, the bruises remain.
A comet's enduring impact on Jupiter