Word: volleyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cage went, but outside the courtroom Negro crowds in the street, clubbed by the police, answered with a volley of stones. A few nervous policemen drew their guns and fired into the crowd. At least 20 people were wounded that day and the next; court was nervously adjourned for three weeks...
...Cyprus, where for 2½ years he lived quietly off port with his wife. One day last May three Cypriot laborers came to the hut at Nicosia airport where Corporal Hale worked. They asked for water. A few seconds after taking the glass Hale preferred them, they fired a volley of shots through the window of the hut. Soldiers who heard the shots gave chase, caught two of the Cypriots, found their revolvers on the ground. The third Cypriot was later flushed out of an acacia tree by an R.A.F. helicopter. Paddy Hale was dead, a bullet through his head...
...champions-and until this week Ken had a habit of finishing secondbest. Smooth, fast-paced ground shots may be lovely to look at, but most of the time they add up to little against a booming serve backed by the ability to come up fast and put away a volley...
...Million Volley. The phenomenon of Dean magazines, now selling well into their second million, is part of a large one: the "one-shot" magazine, i.e., a deliberate publishing flash in the pan devoted to a single subject. Together, growing steadily since World War II, the one-shotters add up to a circulation volley that now hits more than 20 million a year...
Properly viewed, the play is just as timely today as it was in 1673. Despite its title, it is not just a portrait of a hypochondriac; nor is it just another volley in Moliere's life-long campaign against Baroque medical quackery and incompetence. The main theme of the play is the struggle between fraud and stupidity--a warning against too great a trust in alleged experts and arrant professionalism. Of the two dozen or so personages in the piece, only two are natural and honest human beings. The rest are all hypocrites or bluffers. Healthy Argan pretends...