Word: volleyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neck out a mile," he explained. "That is why this kind of program isn't done very often." His documentaries were taut, full of action, rarely bland. During the fighting in Jordanian Jerusalem, Yates was supervising a camera crew from the doorway of the Intercontinental Hotel. When a volley of firing began, everyone else ducked. Yates, typically, raised his head to see what was going on-and was struck by a bullet...
...WORLD TREATING YOU? manages to be blisteringly funny in the modern British fashion as it peppers hypocrisy, respectability, caste and class snobbery and native Blimpcompoops. Two insuperable zanies, Peter Bayliss and Patricia Routledge, volley comic antics back and forth with the precision of a finals match at Wimbledon...
Bayliss and Routledge are insuperable zanies who volley words and antics with the pinging precision of a finals match at Wimbledon. Playwright Milner is an agile mind behind the madness...
Muffled by the deafening downpour, a company of Australian reinforcements in armored personnel carriers crept over surrounding hills undetected by the V.C., opened up with .50-cal. machine guns, cutting down 25 Reds with the first volley. Then Australian, New Zealand and U.S. artillery found the range. When the smoke cleared, the Communists were in full flight, and 220 Viet Cong dead littered the ground. Under a rubber tree, guarding the body of his slain platoon leader, was Private B. C. Miller of Brisbane. Wounded in the face, shoulder and leg, Miller had lapsed into unconsciousness only to be awakened...
After finishing his set speech, the Californian deftly fielded a volley of questions from the floor. Did the candidate have any presidential ambitions? "It's taken me all my life," he allowed, "to get up the nerve to do what I'm doing-and that's as far as my dreams go." If, as many professionals predict, Reagan unseats Democratic Governor Pat Brown in November, his dreams-and the Creative Society-may go farther...