Word: volleyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington returned the volley. "This is the National Portrait Gallery and these are the premier national portraits," said Michael Collins, under secretary of the Smithsonian, which operates the Portrait Gallery. "They are made for each other." He denied leading a "raiding party" on Boston, pointing out that the Athenaeum approached the Washington museum when the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which has borrowed and displayed the works for the past 103 years, could offer only $1 million for them...
...Harvard was embroiled in student strikes and building takeovers, a seven-year-old Newton resident started playing tennis with a racquet that had to be cut down to a size small enough for her to handle. While her teenage sister took tennis lessons, Betsy watched, sneeking in a quick volley or two at the end of each instruction hour...
...cake baked by his stepmother. But it was more an occasion for sadness than joy for Marine Private First Class Robert Russell Garwood, 33, the last American P.O.W. to come home from Viet Nam. Instead of a hero's welcome, he was greeted on his return by a volley of accusations by other ex-P.O.W.s that he was actually a deserter who had willingly helped the Viet Cong beat and interrogate American prisoners. Last week the Marine Corps asked its naval superiors to conduct a formal investigation of the charges, which Garwood denies...
Miraculously, the Middies prevailed. At 1-3, Chaikovsky's put-away volley sailed out when two strings popped just as he hit the ball. And Navy won the game's two final points as one volley landed square on the base line and another nicked...
...service break to take the first set from Weise and Wade Batterton, the Crimson tandem broke Weise's serve at 6-5 to send the second set to a breaker. With Batterton serving at four-all. Shaw returned two backhands from the ad-court, then hit a high forehand volley that Weise leaped for but netted. Point, game, set, match, and team match...