Word: volleyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Surrender! Surrender!" shouted the Turkish commando colonel through a loudspeaker. The only answer from the small band of terrorists who were holed up in a shack near the mountainous Turkish village of Kizildere was a volley of gunfire and abuse. The guerrillas were members of a small extremist organization called the Turkish People's Liberation Army. Late last month, they had kidnaped three NATO radar technicians from a nearby Turkish air force base, and were holding them as hostages for the lives of three other terrorists who have been sentenced to die for the kidnaping-murder of an Israeli...
...left so what remained was essentially his own hand. Johnny Winter's group--which EdgarVonee played with--is generally considered one of the tightest and most powerful groups around, so it's no surprise that "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" turned out to be devastating. While Johnny reeled off volley after volley of notes, the rest of the band seemed to be having the time of their lives providing the surging rhythm pattern that makes the song move. The performance easily equalled any of the brothers' other collaborations...
...something of a hitless wonder. Her backhand was so weak that her tennis-pro father, Jim Evert, taught her to hit the shot with both hands. Though she goes far toward making up in precision what she lacks in power, her pitter-patter serves and lack of a strong volley proved her ultimate undoing at Forest Hills. In the five months since, however, she not only polished her game but grew a full inch taller and five pounds heavier. (She is now 5 ft. 5 in. and weighs 115 Ibs.) As a result, there was more snap in her strokes...
...volley ball team beat B.U. last night in three of four games...
Radcliffe's basketball and B squash teams fell to tough squads from Wellesley yesterday, 43-27 and 3-1 respectively. In a contest played at the IAB, the Radcliffe volley ball team overpowered Boston University...