Word: volleyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon in 1953, as she was playing volley ball in the schoolyard, Bernadete fell, giving her right elbow a nasty crack on the pavement. X rays showed a simple fracture, but the pain grew worse until last year, when a surgeon operated twice to remove tumors. When she failed to recover after the second operation, she was moved to the sparsely equipped, twelve-bed cancer hospital in the coastal city of Recife, where Dr. Valdemir Lopez, the hospital's director, found that a form of cancer (osteosarcoma) had spread from her arm to her right lung. He told...
...irony of the situation somehow escaped the British press, which would almost certainly have let go a volley of criticism if the same incidents had occurred in the U.S. The Russians' reception in Canada went without comment in London last week, reported only by the Daily Express in a six-line item...
Last Stand. Head's cannon ball and Hartwig's fine backhand won two quick sets despite one diehard net play from a reinvigorated Seixas. Coming back with his best performance of the afternoon, Trabert belted a two-handed push volley past the astonished Australians, smashed ahead to win the fourth set and tie up the match...
...fifth set, Trabert and Seixas thrice came within a stroke of breaking Head's service. But the Aussies did not falter. The end came when Seixas, serving, put two in the net. His next serve was successfully returned by Head's erratic backhand. Hartwig's backhand volley drove one in the alley; Trabert reached for it, slid to the grass, and the game was over. The match and the Davis Cup were Australia's. Said Australia's balding, jut-jawed Captain Harry Hopman: "We are very much relieved...
From his laboratories at Durham, N.C., where for more than 25 years he has been testing theories and assembling statistics about "ESP-prone" subjects, Dr. Rhine fired an angry volley at Price's article, asked "whether a hundred or more research scientists ... are so stupid as to indulge in a gigantic hoax involving the hiring of confederates and such...