Word: volley
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...volley of stories detailing the palace's behind-the-scenes fury ended up backfiring. The public sympathized with the 32-year-old mother of two who had strayed into the sights of such heavy artillery. The next day Charles Anson, the Queen's press secretary and the source of some of the vitriol, issued an extraordinary, perhaps unprecedented, public apology to the monarch and Fergie. Anson was not the only insider to spill venom, but he accepted "full responsibility" for what some people had begun to call the "Mean Queen Machine." The next step in damage control was to negotiate...
...coalition's latest volley ina recent campaign against the Law Schooladministration. In 1990, the student group filed alaw-suit in a Massachusetts state court chargingthe Law School with violating the state'santi-discrimination...
...good, why not play it again? When Barry Manilow helped open the new Paramount theater -- a symbolic act in itself -- back in September with a volley of his favorite Broadway standards, he was the latest of several Pop stars to declare for the old-time religion: Maureen McGovern, Linda Ronstadt and Carly Simon have all issued neoconservative albums, to blend right in with your Bennetts and Clooneys and Sinatras, while several talented young singers, such as Andrea Marcovicci, Mary Cleere Haran and Harry Connick Jr., actually seem to have been born that...
...part, they are strikingly congruent with the concerns most people say they are interested in, like requiring able-bodied people on welfare to work for their assistance and offering college loans in return for community service. Fashioning an easily understood plan for national health insurance is the last major volley in Clinton's blitz. To defuse an anticipated attack from Kerrey, who has made health care his strongest issue, Clinton was expected to release his program this week...
...SUMMER of discontent. The season's heat brought passions to a boil. What began as a volley of verbal provocation erupted into a block-by-block battle of bottles and rocks. Blacks and Jews were at it again...