1.   Artillery units had pounded the area.

2.   Before a cease-fire was called at noon local time, the area had been pounded by tanks and American jet fighters.

3.   But on Friday afternoon, as storms again pounded the area, Williams was taking no chances and was again busy securing the mail.

4.   In the last three years, floods and blizzards have pounded the area.

5.   Palestinians opened fire on Israeli troops, who pounded the area with heavy machine gun fire, witnesses said.

6.   A local official said Turkish jets pounded the area at dawn.

7.   After nightfall Tuesday, American jets pounded areas around Kandahar and the airport outside the remote northwestern city of Herat, near the Iranian border.

8.   As an Israeli unit rushed to evacuate the patrol, fighters pounded the area with rockets, inflicting more casualties, a Hezbollah statement said.

9.   At least two rockets pounded the area around the airport, which is used for civilian and military purposes, airport manager Ali Timur said.

10.   Attack jets and artillery pounded the area Thursday.