Word: volleyer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resolution," he swore to Ego at the beginning of 1945: "To do the work of two men instead of three." By then, that 13-year labor of self-love had grown to seven volumes (final total: nine). Into it, Agate had poured his "insane desire" for immortality, and a volley of educated banter ranging from Bernhardt to boogie-woogie, censorship to Sartre...
...House volley-ball league is now in full swing; all eight Houses had matches yesterday. Eliot edged Leverett, 2 to 1, while Dunster, Kirkland, and Adams each shut out Lowell, Dudley, and Winthrop...
...only permanent member of the reporters' panel, often gets a tenacious grip on an evasive guest and shakes damaging admissions from him. Other members of the shifting, four-man panel come from the top drawer of the U.S. press, and many a bigwig has winced under the volley of questions from such reporters as the New York Times's "Scotty" Reston, Raymond Brandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, U.P.'s Merriman Smith, and Columnists Marquis Childs and Drew Pearson...
...Paris, when Communist Scientist-Professor Frédéric Joliot-Curie walked into the Collège de France auditorium for a lecture on atomic physics, he was greeted with a volley of catcalls, stink bombs and firecrackers. By the time the cops arrived, the explosive students had disappeared...
...proceeded. I was in the fourth jeep from the front and Colonel Kim, the R.O.K. commander, was just ahead. As we rounded a curve the whole side of the mountain ahead of us opened up with fire. Colonel Kim's driver was mortally wounded by the first volley. My jeep was hit all over as we went for the ditch and fired back. My interpreter was killed and several others were hit. Twenty-five minutes later the enemy had overrun our position...