Word: volleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nuns to carry the scaling ladders; it tickled him to see the Spaniards forced to shoot down their sacred compatriots. At the fight at Matasnillos the Spaniards stampeded 1,500 bulls against the buccaneers: Morgan's men indulged in no matadorean antics, routed the bulls with a musket volley. Morgan's only serious repulse, says Biographer Roberts, was after the taking of Panama, when one of the beauteous captives caught his weather eye. He laid siege to her virtue by attrition and guile, but did not carry her, buccaneer-like, by storm. When she held out longer than...
...Negroes jumped to their feet, firing as the frightened boys ran. Laughing, the sentries on the Fortress wall fired a few shots too. The first volley missed...
Inside the palace at that instant Little Tsar Boris and Alexander Malinoff, president of the assembly, were trying to pick a successor for Premier Nicolas Mouscha-noff. just resigned. CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! A volley of shots rattled the tall windows. His Majesty and his minister scampered to the tall portieres just in time to see the hunting dogs, yelping furiously, disappear in the distance while the hunters, the editor and his bodyguards blazed blindly away. Out from their sentry hutches dashed the royal guards to open fire on both parties indiscriminately. A policeman and a window watcher...
...resolution of his organization which "held that in the public interest it was advisable and wise to permit the broadcast of news . . . Presidential elections specifically." In seven subsequent annual meetings that resolution had been left upon the books. Accordingly Manager Cooper supplied his reports, became target for a volley of protests from outraged AP members...
...Charges: because she refused his backgammon advice, he hurled backgammon board, glasses and a ginger ale bottle, tore off her clothes before guest. Not mentioned: the 1931 fight in a Detroit hotel between Defendant Harris & Father-in-law Thurston, leaving two Thurston ribs broken, Harris nearly blinded by a volley from Thurston's tear gas fountain...