Word: volleyers
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Inflexible Will. Mobutu's latest burst of name changing produced a volley of protest from Brazzaville, capital of the former French Middle Congo, which insisted that Mobutu had no right to unilaterally change the name of the Congo River since it is an international waterway and threatened to take the matter to the World Court. Some outsiders were unkind enough to suggest that Mobutu, a missionary-educated Roman Catholic, might well de-Westernize himself by dropping his Christian names. The President, as it happens, had that thought in mind. Last week he announced that he was considering renaming himself...
There are few survivors from those debacles. Ex-coach John Yovicsin is organizing volley ball tournaments in the basement of 60 Boylston Street, and the sophomore quarterback of the '69 team, Rex Blankenship, is playing House football this fall...
...they never overcame my dismay. If, as my program tells me, the opening of the Old Library Theater marks "a dynamic new era in the history of the House"--why, fellows, did you pick something as stale as Greasepaint for your opening volley...
...Newton said that he had nothing more lethal than a law book in his car when Frey stopped him, and that when he tried to quote the law book, Frey became enraged and shot him in the belly. After that, said Newton, he remembered nothing except hearing a volley of shots. The defense suggested that Frey might have been accidentally shot by a fellow officer, while the prosecution insisted that Newton had killed...
...Guests were pushed against a wall and shot by impromptu firing squads. The King's brother, Prince Moulay Abdullah, was hit in the arm during one such volley, then left by his would-be executioners when he fell and played dead. But it became evident that the King was meant to be spared. At one point cadets burst into his sanctuary and ordered him outside with the other surviving guests. A young soldier, nervously fingering the trigger of his rifle, took Hassan aside Alone, he kissed the King's hand. Hassan was astounded. "We are cadets...