Word: volley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...straight years and ranked in the top five for two decades. Barring a miracle, her numbers won't grow more impressive during Wimbledon fortnight. But for a match or maybe a few, there will be glints of the lightning serve, the headlong dash to net, the utterly % unreturnable volley, the predator's grin, the confidence of an artist whose heart and mind know the way even when the feet are sometimes slow to follow...
First was American collegiate squash's switch to the use of a softer ball. In previous seasons, tournaments in this country had mainly used a harder ball which contributed to a faster game, characterized by powerful serving and short volley points. Fraiberg's 1992 championship came with the use of this ball...
...personal tribulations of a nominee may be of little concern to Brown's two Senate antagonists, Republicans Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Hank Brown of Colorado. But still one has to wonder what happened between the November hearings and now. The first volley was fired on Feb. 14 when Brown received several dozen questions from the two Senators; by April 20 the number had exceeded 100 and ranged from travel in Azerbaijan (he has never been there) to concern about his dropping a requirement that Peace Corps volunteers be instructed in the menace of communism (the archaic provision...
...Downward Spiral, the bracing new album by Nine Inch Nails, the mood starts off grim and deteriorates fast. The record opens with a volley of gunshot-like reports that mutate into the techno thrash of Mr. Self Destruct, on which composer-singer Trent Reznor screams, "I am the voice inside your head -- and I control...
...violating a 1989 trade agreement that would have allowed cellular-phone giant Motorola the same access to the lucrative Tokyo-Nagoya market that Japanese companies enjoy. Japan denies that they have violated the agreement. The President did not foreclose the possibility that American sanctions might be the first volley in a trade war with Japan. Earlier this month, talks between the nations broke down...