Word: salvo
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...opening salvo in what is bound to be a long, acrimonious booming of political big guns, the Finance Minister mildly said: "This budget is frankly framed to enable us to buy more freely from those countries which buy from us most freely. . . . I speak in no spirit of retaliation. I would much rather extend lower tariff favors to those who extend them...
...Peter's, the Pope dismounted. Night had fallen. In the glow of spotlights he walked solemnly to a bronze altar set before a tapestry of the Last Supper. Canticles were intoned by 6,000 voices. To the kneeling thousands the elevation of the host was announced by a salvo of bugles. The Pope raised his arms heavenward, thrice blessed the throng. Then, remounting the podium, he was borne into the awesome, shadowed basilica. As he passed, the dark façade blazed with torches...
Vivandiere, meaning a female brandy-selling camp-follower, is a word that has fallen into disuse since Blanche Bates played the part of one in the dramatized version of Ouida's novel Under Two Flags. Author Gaye's vivandiere "was born to the sound of a salvo of guns. She was weaned at three weeks and put on the bottle. Only it wasn't milk in the bottle, it was brandy! . . . The only powder she's ever had on her hair is gunpowder. She could walk at nine months, talk at a year...
Attack. For the first few days, Sir Joseph was constantly in the witness box. First salvo for the prosecution was Lawyer Miller's statement of intent: "We hope to show that Sir Joseph has built up an organization which is the finest of its kind in the world and has a strangle hold on the picture business. . . . He has established such contacts with the richest clientele in the world that scarcely anyone else can sell an oil painting. He has built up such a business that when he condemns that picture it is dead, and he knows...
...week later, Daniel O'Leary, gangster, was spending a night with his mistress. Five men entered their rendezvous. They fired a salvo into the sleeping O'Leary. The woman went away with them...