Word: volleyes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colleges are pitted against one another in 15 sports, while the Houses meet in one more. Volley ball is an exclusive at Cambridge, while only the Blue competes in handball. The Harvard champions meet the first-place Yale teams in touch football, basketball, hockey, squash, swimming, baseball, golf, rowing, and tennis...
...Yard Champions journeyed to Yale and fought a Bulldog pick-up team 0 to 0 tie in the freshman quadrangle. Dissipated condition from the previous evening, the early hour of play, Yale student spectators, and an occasional volley of beer cans, all hindered the Lionel six from scoring that...
...first notes of the bullfight music sounded, one of the fans hurled a stocking filled with flour toward the arena, hit a Mexican army lieutenant squarely in the face. A soldier who tried to arrest the culprit quickly became a target for a volley of empty bottles and oranges. "It's all in fun," screamed the charcoal makers, "don't arrest our brother." At the height of the uproar another soldier, who had just put down a marijuana cigarette, calmly unslung his Mauser, fired point-blank at the yelling fans. An aficionado dropped with a bullet behind...
...still growing, Ham had a solid service, a clean, running forehand that took the ball on the rise, Fred Perry fashion, and a flat, whistling backhand (at present, his best stroke), apparently so effortless that his placements with it seemed almost accidental. He could volley and drop-volley with a skill that juniors seldom have had time to learn...
...They shook the hands of demonstrators, who cried: "The army is with us!" The crowd came face to face with lines of black-helmeted gendarmes, who thrust them back. When a caravan of buses and automobiles bringing pro-Leopoldists from Ghent approached the palace, it was met by a volley of paving stones and bricks thrown by the demonstrators...