Word: volleyer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setting the pace. Out in front by 171/2 points, Straus won the football championship with an 8 and 0 record. They slumped, however, to fifth in cross country, but gained again by finishing third and fourth in the two basketball tournaments. Intramural matches are now being held in volley-ball, wrestling, and boxing. The standings: Straus North 197 Weld South 179 1/2 Holworthy 172 1/2 Stoughton 164 1/2 Hollis 149 Mower 146 Lionel 144 Weld North 140 Massachusetts 124 1/2 Straus South 108 Thayer Middle 101 Matthews North 95 Wigglesworth West 88 Grays 82 Matthews South 80 1/2 Dudley...
...President Owen did not stop there, said the court. When players needed easy academic credits, he allowed them,to take courses in "handball, basketball, volley ball, touch football and individual gymnastics." Defendant George Chianakis got credit for "elementary badminton, elements of tumbling, golf and boxing." Melchiorre, who needed an extra credit to graduate, "selected an hour of social and square dancing" with a class of Bradley coeds. "It was," said he, "an entertaining course...
...have to think. With Larsen, I just try to overpower him. Flam, I play his forehand. With Sedgman, you have to keep the ball deep, he comes to the net so much. He and Larsen are the quickest. With McGregor, you just can't let him volley. Patty doesn't let you play good-looking tennis. Flam hits those looper balls. Before the war, they played more complete tennis. Schroeder and Kramer played all-court games...
...cried one marcher. "We're the army." By the time San Pedro's police garrison of 18 realized that the column was made up of some 50 bandits in stolen army uniforms, it was too late. "Surrender or die!" the bandits roared, and with one brief heavy volley, they dispersed the defenders. Two hundred more bandits, not uniformed, but in close formation, poured into the town, shouting, "Long live the Liberal Party...
...Villa was at the wheel of the Overland, joking with his pals and puffing on a corn-shuck cigarette as he drove up to the school corner. The pumpkinseed vendor lurched toward the road, shouted: "Viva Villa!" As the general raised a hand to salute, a ragged volley of rifle bullets riddled his fat body. He and one aide died instantly...