Word: volleyings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill's early life was like a series of military marches. He went to Ireland, where he remembers (age four) his grandfather, the Lord-Lieutenant, saying as he unveiled a Dublin statue: ". . . with a withering volley he shattered the enemy's line." "Nor," says Author Guedalla, "was the martial infant . . . unaware of the nature of a volley...
Young Keyes, working with a captain and a sergeant, was foraging for Rommel. He opened the door of a second room. It was dark, but the three Britons could hear suppressed breathing inside. Keyes ran in, firing his pistol. He was met with a volley and fell in the doorway. The sergeant climbed over his body and sprayed the room with gunfire. The Germans fired back. The British captain dashed into the room and yelled "duck." The captain then blew the room apart with two hand grenades. He and the sergeant carried Colonel Keyes's body outside...
...spirited match that was especially close in the second game, the Eliot House volley team defeated Kirkland House 15-3, 13-15, 15-6. Playing for the Elephants were Dick Sisson, Ken Smith, Don McDonald, Dick Hartwell, Paul Southwick, and Peter Gill...
...then fired a volley of nicknames which the experts were to identify, but they obviously did not know their lessons. Recalling Friday afternoon grammar school elocution contests the next event required the competitors to recite a given poem for thirty seconds. Falling this, they were at liberty to recite any poem, or in fact anything, as long as the audience was amused for the required thirty seconds...
...witnesses the burning alive of sixteen here tics; he sees next what happens to 20,000 Indians in spontaneous desperate rebellion. Stark naked, all of them, men, women and children, they advance in a brown wave, using stones and sharpened sticks, to dissolve into panic before the first volley from the crossbows. Narciso is enough a man of his time to get bloody excitement out of his first kills: when, with four hours' daylight left, his companions begin to slaughter merely for sport, he "followed fascinated." It was easy enough to see what had been in credible...