Word: salvoes
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Italian correspondents, impressionable, reported that their blood "ran cold'' as they watched a notorious "Mafia Queen," Giuseppa Salvo, 62, receive her 25-year sentence "with a sinister look and a ferocious leer...
Since that engagement down in the nation's capital, Georgetown has cut a wide swath in collegiate baseball ranks, until its nine ran afoul of Holy Cross at Worcester last Saturday. There Burch was chased from the mound by a salvo of hits that produced eight runs in the fifth, while Davidson of Holy Cross pitched shutout ball throughout the contest, holding his opponents to two hits. The two Georgetown counters that made the final score 9 to 2 came in on errors...
...Paris, bombarding the coast of Sidi Driss, sent a salvo nine miles inland to Annoual. French aviators reported that one shell exploded in an Arab coffeehouse, sending Arabs and coffee high...
...rounds. Savagely he tore into McTigue, slashed him around the ropes with rights and lefts, made small men stand up in their chairs. The next three rounds were not so fast; the fighters were listless. The bell rang for the eighth, both boxers dragged languidly into action amid a salvo of boos. More flaccid pommeling, clinching, pushing. A raucous fan began to sing Every Hour I Knead Thee, was silenced. In the last two rounds, McTigue feebly rallied. Referee Lewis gave the victory to little Walker. McTigue kept his title, as the boxing law of New Jersey does not permit...
Terrific roof-raising yells greeted Mussolini. Deputies rushed at him and bore him out of the Chamber shoulder high while salvo upon salvo of cheers boomed out from the overhead galleries. It was conceded to be Mussolini's greatest triumph...