Forgoing chronological precision, it has flashed ahead right to the pummeled hopes and realized aspirations of two half-brothers and their core group of friends in Tree Hill, N.C., four years after high school.
Ironically, however, the pummeled economies in these cities made it difficult for many to move.
And Gregory Mankiw, the Harvard economist, writing in the Economic View column, defends the performance of Ben S. Bernanke, the regularly pummeled chairman of the Federal Reserve.
But they gradually came around, shifting to the sidewalk to spare adjacent lungs and the nicotine-pummeled ceiling panels, which still offer a distinct gouda-yellow Pall Mall patina today.
In the last few months, the combined experience of this team has also included cleaning up the muck after floods in West Virginia, building houses along the hurricane-pummeled Gulf Coast and working with children of low-income families in southern Georgia — all for about $80 a week and $4.50 a day in meal money, and a $4,725 educational award once they have completed their 10-month hitch.
He held this term during tremendous financial and political upheaval in the state; Mr. Kendrick received death threats as he moved to cut the state's pummeled budget and bring it back from the crisis.
When, at the close of this disturbing novel, she chooses to marry a poisonously pious archpriest, all light seems eclipsed over the rain-pummeled, sun-hungry land of Iceland.
During frenetic passages of Quartet No. 2, the splattered intonation of Eugene Drucker in the first violin part, and the grittiness of the collective sound during some pummeled episodes, which went over the edge to coarseness, suggested that the musicians were trying to pump up the music to make an impact in the large, acoustically dry hall.
To watch Floyd Sr., who at 55 can still make the bags jump, is to become intensely aware of the resilient, much-pummeled skull beneath the leathery face, the lean frame and outlook singularly adapted to fighting.
The backbone of his air defense network is in ruins, his air force is effectively grounded, his ground forces in the east were pummeled, and Admiral Mullen said his logistical supply lines were about to be cut.
("My father will uphold the law at any cost," he says, while being pummeled.) The gang, led by Jadeface Tiger -- the man whose face pancake is as white as his teeth -- demands that its leader be freed.
