Word: volleyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Party, which lost out to Tubman's True Whig Party in the elections last month. Police rounded up 28 opposition-party stalwarts and set out to find David Coleman, their national chairman. At Coleman's rubber farm 30 miles from Monrovia, the posse was greeted with a volley of machine-gun fire. Two of the expedition were killed, four others wounded. The cops set fire to Coleman's house as its defenders disappeared among the rubber trees. There was no sign of Coleman...
...invention, new fur gloves, a quarter cask of rum and his painting kit. rode off at the head of his company of 81 men. Peale, a green militiaman, found his first view of the face of the war "a hellish sight." Standing up to his first volley (discharged from British muskets outside Princeton), Peale noted with surprise the "balls which whistled their thousand different notes around our heads, and what is very astonishing did little or no harm." After returning the fire three times, Peale's men saw the enemy formed near the college take to their heels. Wrote...
Holworthy defeated Grays yesterday afternoon at Hemenway to take the Freshman intramural volley ball championship. The winners, showing excellent teamwork, were extended three games by the Grays team...
Grays' strong freshman volley ball team won the title in the title in the American League last night when they defeated Wigglesworth West, 2 games to 1. They finished regular play with a 6-1 won-lost record...
...ball sped cross court only a few inches above the net, but was met soundly with a sharp volley which angled it past the waiting figure in white...