Word: volleyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Replied Author Herbert in his second volley to the Times: "It is idle for the Rev. Dom Aelred Graham, the Pope, or anyone else to fling such texts at the British people and expect them to be followed literally as guides to conduct after five years of bloody war against a Satanic foe. And which texts are we to follow? What about Matthew 5:39-'Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also'? Should we never have gone...
...spring he fell sick, was put to bed in a naval hospital, got the best care of the best naval doctors. When he died, after weeks of treatment, Just Nuisance was wrapped in a white Naval Ensign and buried with naval honors. A detachment of Royal Marines fired a volley over his grave; his friends stood at attention. By the time his story reached the U.S. last week, a headstone had been erected. It read...
...ASTP teams will square off in baseball and track tomorrow afternoon at soldiers Field, continuing their spring sports competition. Yesterday, the V-12 All Stars topped Company B in softball by 16-2, while the Army triumphed in volley ball...
...Trap. A German Mark-VI and four Mark-IV tanks suddenly appeared on the road. Atop a bare ridge, Sergeant Stanton Dobbins and his men got set with rifle grenades (see p. 68). When the tanks were 60 yards away Dobbins cried: "Let 'em have it." The first volley set one tank afire, knocked the treads off another. Other tanks came up, concentrated their fire on the slopes where the Americans lay. Some of the soldiers fled. Three more tanks were hit; the rest turned away...
Both the House and V-12 league are still being led by Dunster House, according to league standings in touch football, volley ball, baseball, and softball, announced yesterday by Adolph W. Samborski, director of intramural athletics. Dunster's all-round scores total 300 points with Adams in second place with 272 1/2 points...