Word: volleyings
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...cried one marcher. "We're the army." By the time San Pedro's police garrison of 18 realized that the column was made up of some 50 bandits in stolen army uniforms, it was too late. "Surrender or die!" the bandits roared, and with one brief heavy volley, they dispersed the defenders. Two hundred more bandits, not uniformed, but in close formation, poured into the town, shouting, "Long live the Liberal Party...
...Villa was at the wheel of the Overland, joking with his pals and puffing on a corn-shuck cigarette as he drove up to the school corner. The pumpkinseed vendor lurched toward the road, shouted: "Viva Villa!" As the general raised a hand to salute, a ragged volley of rifle bullets riddled his fat body. He and one aide died instantly...
...resolution," he swore to Ego at the beginning of 1945: "To do the work of two men instead of three." By then, that 13-year labor of self-love had grown to seven volumes (final total: nine). Into it, Agate had poured his "insane desire" for immortality, and a volley of educated banter ranging from Bernhardt to boogie-woogie, censorship to Sartre...
...House volley-ball league is now in full swing; all eight Houses had matches yesterday. Eliot edged Leverett, 2 to 1, while Dunster, Kirkland, and Adams each shut out Lowell, Dudley, and Winthrop...
...only permanent member of the reporters' panel, often gets a tenacious grip on an evasive guest and shakes damaging admissions from him. Other members of the shifting, four-man panel come from the top drawer of the U.S. press, and many a bigwig has winced under the volley of questions from such reporters as the New York Times's "Scotty" Reston, Raymond Brandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, U.P.'s Merriman Smith, and Columnists Marquis Childs and Drew Pearson...