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Spics to order - maybe with some beans?" the white kids said, and then pummeled Rodriguez's older brother, who "slid to the ground, like a rotten banana squeezed out of its peeling." Beset by prejudice and poverty, Rodriguez and his friends drifted into gangs for protection and self-respect.

Measurements of energetic particles from an unusually strong solar flare that pummeled Earth early this year suggest that astronauts traveling or working in space might sometimes need to reach shelter within minutes of a warning.

For the three regulation periods of the match, the wrestlers pummeled for position, seeking upper-body leverage to score a takedown.

From April 4 through April 8, winter storms pummeled 10 states, producing 386,000 claims and $1.2 billion in insured losses.

COLOMBIA'S NEW CULTURE MINISTER, CONSUELO ARAUJONOguera, is getting pummeled. The woman best known for organizing the annual Vallenato music festival in her hometown of Valledupar says budget cuts have forced her to fund only "our own culture," not "foreign culture." She's slashed state support of opera, the Bogota Jazz Festival and the Iberian American Theater Festival.

That's a surprise because Titan, the solar system's second-largest moon after Jupiter's Ganymede, is likely to have been pummeled by debris roaming the outer solar system.

The child's father pummeled the coyote with his golf club, causing the animal to release its grip and momentarily back off.

Alternatively, says Tom Brown of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, many small galaxies rather than a single massive one may have pummeled Andromeda.