Word: volleyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headed for the White House." At 2:25 p.m., Mayer allowed the hostages inside the monument to leave. As dusk settled, he seemed prepared to spend the night. Suddenly, just after 7:20, the van lurched away from the monument, sheering off a flagpole next to the obelisk. A volley of shots from police marksmen rang out; the truck swerved and tipped over...
...then the verbal volley suddenly stopped. In a warm, conciliatory speech before the assembled businessmen at a Kremlin dinner, Premier Tikhonov called for "normal and, even better, friendly relations" between the two countries. At the end of Tikhonov's talk, Hartman told the Premier, "Now that's what I call a good speech." Tikhonov smiled faintly...
Yale opened the scoring early, when Eli senior forward Kevin Maher-a bona fide All-America candidate-rammed home a right-football half volley at 7:43 from a heading cross that goalkeeper Matt Ginsburg mishandled...
...heft to their animals. High consumption of such chemicals has been known to cause premature thelarche, and, say the doctors, when patients are withdrawn from the suspect foods, nearly all recover within six to eight months. The charges have triggered a spate of Government investigations, a volley of denials by the meat and milk industries and public panic that led to a temporary 30% drop in chicken sales and a 5.5% decline in the island's consumption of milk...
Less than a minute later, the freshman from Aalsneer. Holland made an identical run in stead of shooting, he crossed to halfback Leo Lanzillo, rambling into the Big Red's penalty area Lanzillo rocked away a neat volley into the right of the Cornell twines for the tally...