Word: volleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attack begins. The attackers fire a volley from behind trees, then throw away their guns and rush the defenders with lances. If the assault is successful, slaughter is indiscriminate-except for nubile girls, who are spared if they refrain from fighting...
Commoners (male & female) wear corduroys and overalls, live a communal life which in leisure hours includes swimming in Mill Creek, dancing, group singing, tennis, volley ball and taking siestas under the trees. The Commonwealth College Fortnightly tells of their activities. Excerpts...
When this volley of criticism reached Governor Roosevelt, he backtracked. He telegraphed Manager Farley...
...ever seen, but violence did not stop with the Deputies. As soon as the story leaked out, Communists and Hitlerites began punching each others' noses all over Germany. In Hamburg a mob of Communists swept down the street shouting "Hunger, Hunger!" breaking into a delicatessen store. A volley of police bullets stopped them. In Berlin a group of Hitlerites were trapped by a surly crowd in a railway tunnel, had to be rescued by police. In Cologne and at Remscheid Communist crowds did not wait to be charged, attacked the police first. At Dusseldorf the police were bombarded with...
...Russian Revolution." Past an honor guard of Red cavalrymen with drawn sabres the professor's cremated ashes were borne to a niche cut in the Kremlin wall behind Lenin's Tomb, popped in and covered with a bronze tablet while Red soldiers fired a three-volley salute...