Word: volleyed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...François Gane and his friend Baumier were strolling along quietly when they saw the provocative form of a strange young lady walking ahead of them. "A little before they came abreast of her, Baumier with an ample movement of his arm, as if to catch a low volley ball, slapped her buttocks resoundingly." As he did so he roared: "Goddamn little chicken...
...beholder in his theater seat and overwhelms him with a frontal attack of enormous images and sounds. Audiences will be put, especially with the addition of stereophonic sound, somewhat in the position of Tennyson's lancers in the Light Brigade. They will have to ride unreasoning through volley and thunder into any old melodrama Hollywood cares to spread before them...
...Communist Siqueiros turned out a 10-ft.-square mural hopefully calculated to stir up a lively religious row. Done with a luminous, three-dimensional effect, the painting shows Hidalgo before a Spanish firing squad, one bullet-riddled hand still clasped to his breast in the moment before a final volley cut him down. His accuser is a mitered Catholic archbishop, stiff-backed and sinister, holding a standard topped with a cross. Beneath is a Spanish crown and Siqueiros' own paraphrase of the death sentence: "Excommunication and death penalty for Miguel Hidalgo for professing and spreading exotic ideas partisan...
Freshman Special: Thayer North topped Matthews South, 2 to 0, for the Yard volley ball crown...
...attacks if he tried to scare a cat away, swat a fly, squash a bug or land a fish. ¶A boxer who had his opponent on the ropes, but could not bring himself to deliver the finishing punch. ¶Tennis players who, in the middle of a volley, drop the racket and either go limp in the arm or fall down...