Word: volleyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Probably the top man will be Frank Ripley, number two on last year's squad, and a finalist in the New England Intercollegiate championships for the last two years. A big-serve-and-volley player, Ripley took teammate Paul Sullivan to three sets in the New England finals before losing last year...
...issue between them, India and Pakistan will rage at each other with the furious in tensity of a cobra and a mongoose. Three weeks ago, the United Nations Security Council shelved debate on the thorny problem without recommending any action. The debate had hardly ended when a furious volley of gunfire erupted along the troubled Kashmir cease-fire line, leaving 23 Indian policemen dead and missing...
...first round Liston claims to have injured his shoulder trying to block a Clay punch; it was not apparent to the viewers. Liston stalked Clay from the moment the bell sounded, connecting with hard shots to the body, but more often missing with ferocious jabs. Clay scored with a volley of six punches to Sonny's head and capped them with a sharp right and left. The round was Clay...
...help dramatize the Negro's 1963 revolution, leaders of civil rights organizations seized upon Randolph's old idea, called upon sympathizers everywhere for a "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." Representatives of different, often rival, organizations got together, fired out to state and local representatives volley after volley of handbooks, bulletins, press releases, charts, schedules, visceral warnings and soul-stirring exhortations. Said one broadside: "We march to redress old grievances and to help resolve an American crisis born of the twin evils of racism and deprivation." The march organizers listed the demands that the parade would symbolize...
...Queen Victoria's funeral in 1901, cannons in London boomed a ceremonial farewell-and villagers 90 miles away were startled by the rumbling volley. Yet not a shot was heard in towns halfway between. What caused the funereal boom to leapfrog...