Word: volleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teams staging one five man melee after another. Clark tallied from such a muddle in front of the Crimson goal in the closing seconds of the chukker. Harvard scored on Luton's close range drive in the next period, but the fourth chukker saw it powerless before a volley of fast drives from Clark and his teammates. Captain Roland Mangini of the Cavalry was the star of this phase of the game, netting two quick goals. Cooke's tally in the last stanza and a steaming shot for goal by Clark ended the game...
About dawn the landlady jumped up in bed as a volley of shots rattled the window panes. Feet thudded down the stairway. A voice cried: "Hell, that's enough -come on." The front door slammed. From a window the landlady saw two men disappear inside a maroon sedan, watched ihe car slip away in the half-light. Then she called the speakeasy. When police arrived an hour later, they found a group of gaping lodgers standing around the room in their nightclothes. Diamond's doctor shifted from foot to foot. A redhaired, wild-eyed woman was mopping blood...
...keys. Shivering in their underclothes, Jackson & Banks were taken to the edge of town, strung up to the cross arm of a telephone pole, side by side. Someone gave an order. Stepping back from the pole, the mob raised guns to shoulders, riddled its victims with a roaring volley which awakened the sleeping town...
...completely out of touch with Madrid. A noisy, long-drawn battle was waged between police and Syndicalists in front of the latter's headquarters. They gave up when mountain guns were unlimbered across the street. Sailors rushed a hundred of them on board warships in the harbor. A volley of shots rang out from doorways facing the tree-lined Rambla Flores, sloping down to the harbor. A Civil Guard whirled on his heel and fell, seriously wounded, among the flower pots and twittering bird cages of the market...
...church to disperse the assembly as a menace to the white man's peace. Words passed between the sheriff and Picket Gray. A round of shots was fired in the dark. Sheriff Young and a deputy fell wounded. So did Picket Gray. From the church came a volley of fire. Deputies on the outside volleyed back. The Negroes inside the church went scampering away to cover through the night. Four of them were left behind wounded. The deputies burned the church to the ground. Later a posse sought Gray in his cabin. When they were met with a fusillade...