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Word: volleyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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First singles player Don Pompan continued his combination of eastern competition, decimating Tim McAvoy 6-3, 6-4. Pompan fought off a little early trouble with his serve and volley to defeat the Lion by nearly the same tally as last year's match...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Netmen Crush Penn State, 9-0 | 4/15/1980 | See Source »

ALBERT INNAURATO'S Gemini begins with a deafening blast of construction, a counter-blast of Maria Callas and a volley of shrieks and screams. The protagonist, Francis Geminiani, a Harvard junior back home in Philadelphia for the summer, leans out his second-story window, plants a speaker on the sill in a grand gesture of defiance, and blares an opera record to combat the 7 a.m. assault. This awakens his obese next-door neighbor, Bunny Weinberger, who throws open her second-story window and screeches at him to "turn off that shitty music." Besides, she yells, one of those workers...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Smashing the Sidewalk | 3/6/1980 | See Source »

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