Word: volleyer
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...there is no doubt that the event has had unmistakable and immediate consequences, most notably the subsequent announcement by Hamas that its military wing was abandoning a cease-fire it had largely held to since early 2005. Since then, it has re-entered the fray with a volley of rockets, raising the frightening prospect that sustained violence could start anew - the kind of violence that has already irrevocably marked the lives of the Ragolskys and the Ghabens, along with many others...
...No.1 team of Natasa Vukovic and Gira Schofield, Anderson and O’Riain showed why they have been ranked No. 4 by taking their game to new heights. On break point during that pivotal seventh game, O’Riain stabbed at a ball with a lunging volley that landed just over the net, leading to a put-away winner from partner Anderson. From that point on, the duo went on a tear to even the score at 6-6. After splitting the next four games, the team dominated in the tiebreak, pulling away from the Gamecocks tandem...
...score during 1:16 of 5-on-3 time early in the third period, reflecting the struggles of a man-advantage squad that came into the game with a meager .172 conversion percentage and that went 0-for-7 on the night. Fortunately for Harvard, its strategy of launching volley after volley at the resilient D’Alba eventually paid off when Murphy put away his own rebound to secure the season sweep for the Crimson. “After the first [period], we threw a lot of pucks on net,” Murphy said...
...Zheng Jie, it all came down to the nifty clothes. A lot of youngsters fall in love with tennis because of the exhilaration of a perfect ace or the thrilling geometry of a well-placed volley. But when Zheng was growing up in China's rural Sichuan province, she knew little about the game. The coaches who approached her in 1990, when she was seven years old, had to explain that tennis was like ping-pong, only with a bigger, fuzzier ball. Still, there were advantages to playing this strange sport. "Because my teammates and I were among the first...
...quick volley of cell phone calls sent the news to the Sago Baptist Church, where friends and family members had gathered. Hundreds of people then leapt to their feet and surged out the front door...