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...still growing, Ham had a solid service, a clean, running forehand that took the ball on the rise, Fred Perry fashion, and a flat, whistling backhand (at present, his best stroke), apparently so effortless that his placements with it seemed almost accidental. He could volley and drop-volley with a skill that juniors seldom have had time to learn...
...They shook the hands of demonstrators, who cried: "The army is with us!" The crowd came face to face with lines of black-helmeted gendarmes, who thrust them back. When a caravan of buses and automobiles bringing pro-Leopoldists from Ghent approached the palace, it was met by a volley of paving stones and bricks thrown by the demonstrators...
Fradd Ball is described by its creator as "a mutation of volley ball." Played in a low-ceiling court on the third floor of the Indoor Athletic Building, the game often takes on elements of football, basketball, and jai alai. Fradd Ball's basic rule is that every surface in the room is playable, and that the ball (a volley ball) becomes dead if it touches the floor more than once on each play...
...fans found Pancho's game better all around. He was less jumpy, his shots were better placed, his forehand volley was faster and his anticipation more acute. Big Jake had noticed something else. Said he: "I'm the big difference in Gonzales' game. I haven't been able to keep the pressure on him. I've gotten kind of stale...
With the election of his successor less than three weeks away, Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez proclaimed a state of siege. In a volley of swift decrees he also: 1) indefinitely suspended Congress (which has a Liberal majority); 2) took away the power of the supreme court's Liberal majority to nullify any of his acts; 3) imposed censorship on press, radio and cables; 4) banned meetings and demonstrations; 5) empowered government officials to dismiss all remaining Liberal employees...