Word: volleyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Send a volley cheer on high...
...crucial doubles match. Emerson won with his slicing serve. Now it was Ralston's turn, and his serve is his weakest point. Two serves, and it was love-30. But then, backs to the wall, the Americans abruptly came alive. In a series of blasting volleys directly at the Aussies' feet, they reeled off four straight points to make it 4-4. Fred Stolle wound up to serve-and Ralston looped a backhand volley over his head-love-15. McKinley smashed a forehand past Emerson's futilely waving racket-love-30-pounded over a short, cross-court...
...look again. Stationed strategically between them was Host Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, and his head kept swiveling as if he were following a slow-motion tennis volley. For nearly three hours the Rumanian President alternated his attentions like clockwork-15 minutes to Revisionist Mikoyan, 15 minutes to Factionalist Li-while his two honored guests pointedly ignored each other. Nothing, not even the considerable efforts of the host's raven haired daughter Lica, who is a Communist movie queen, could make them even look at each other...
...newsmen, Castro kept it up-this time about the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo. For two weeks, the Cubans have claimed U.S. marines shot and killed a Cuban sentry on the other side of the fence. The U.S. has flatly denied it. A group of Cubans suddenly fired a volley in the direction of a Marine guard post. Following orders, the mar-rines squeezed off two warning shots over the heads of the Cubans. No one was hit, says Washington, but an ambulance and a photographer immediately appeared on the Cuban side-and Castro was soon shouting murder. To judge...
...ranked amateur, but always before an also-ran at Wimbledon-in eight tries, he had never reached the finals. This time, Emerson went all the way. Despite intermittent showers that forced officials to stop the match three times, he polished off Stolle in four straightforward, serve-volley sets...