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Word: volleyer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fourth-seeded Erica Schulman won the most harrowing match of the weekend against Boston University's Gail McCarthy, whose aggressive serve-and-volley game successfully broke Schulman's rhythm in the first 10 games of the three setter...

Author: By Paul.duke. Jr, | Title: Netwomen Take N.E.'s | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

Nazir, replacing regular starter John Catliff, sent the ball back to the edge of the penalty box toward a charging Leo Lanzillo. The Crimson's senior captain hammered a 20-yard right-footed half volley that blazed past Princeton goalkeeper Jim Andersen...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Princeton Nips Men Booters In the Final Minutes, 3-1 | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...undisputed No. 1 performer on U.S. TV. His show is a weekly catchall of the things the 40-year-old comic has learned in 35 hard-working years in show business. Berle uses not only his brash, strongbow-shaped mouth to get off his loud, fast, uneven volley of one-line gags; with expert timing and tireless bounce, he also hurls his whole 6 feet and 191 dieted pounds into every act of his show. His motto is still "anything for a laugh"-and practically anything he does gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO & TV 1949: Milton Berle's TEXACO STAR THEATER | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...warden made a slight motion with his left hand, and a rifle volley shattered the silence. Four bullets tore into Gilmore's heart, twisting his body, which then turned limp. Blood slowly poured out, staining the bullet-pocked chair. Two minutes later, at 8:07 a.m. on Jan. 17, Gary Gilmore was declared dead. He was the first prisoner to be executed in the U.S. since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law 1977:Gilmore Dies The Death Penalty Is Revived | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...from Yeshiva University High School in Manhattan headed home by automobile to Queens on the Cross Bronx Expressway. A gunman, or gunmen, followed in a car, sped ahead of them on the expressway, and parked in waiting at an exit ramp. As the students neared the Whitestone Bridge, a volley from a high-powered automatic or semiautomatic M-16-type rifle rang out. One shot missed the students and killed Lucille Rivera, 37, a Queens mother of two who was a front-seat passenger in the vehicle next to theirs. A second blast ripped into the back seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worst Fears | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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